diff --git a/pym/consolegui/application/client_class.py b/pym/consolegui/application/client_class.py
index 2547832..d35c58a 100644
--- a/pym/consolegui/application/client_class.py
+++ b/pym/consolegui/application/client_class.py
@@ -720,10 +720,19 @@ class HTTPSClientCertTransport(HttpTransport):
         self.cookie_callback = cookie_callback
         self.user_agent_string = user_agent_string
         log.debug("Proxy: %s", self.options.proxy)
-        from dslib.network import ProxyManager
-        proxy_handler = ProxyManager.HTTPS_PROXY.create_proxy_handler()
-        proxy_auth_handler = \
-                        ProxyManager.HTTPS_PROXY.create_proxy_auth_handler()
+        #TODO to be removed:
+        # artifacts from old times:
+        
+        # from dslib.network import ProxyManager
+        # proxy_handler = ProxyManager.HTTPS_PROXY.create_proxy_handler()
+        # proxy_auth_handler = ProxyManager.HTTPS_PROXY.create_proxy_auth_handler()
+
+        # apparently, dslib simply returned None on create_proxy_auth_handler
+        proxy_auth_handler = None
+        # and create_proxy_handler SHOULD HAVE eval'd to this:
+        # proxy_handler = u2.ProxyHandler({"https" : "https://hostname"})
+        # but because no hostname was given, it also just returned None
+        proxy_handler = None
         if ca_certs or (client_keyfile and client_certfile) \
                     or (client_keyobj  and client_certobj):
             https_handler = CheckingClientHTTPSHandler(parent,
@@ -739,10 +748,13 @@ class HTTPSClientCertTransport(HttpTransport):
         self.urlopener = u2.build_opener(SUDSHTTPRedirectHandler(),
                                        u2.HTTPCookieProcessor(self.cookiejar),
                                        https_handler)
+        
+        #these two literally do nothing right now
         if proxy_handler:
             self.urlopener.add_handler(proxy_handler)
         if proxy_auth_handler:
             self.urlopener.add_handler(proxy_auth_handler)
+
         self.urlopener.addheaders = [('User-agent', self.user_agent_string)]
 
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