bpo-42627: Fix wrong parsing of Windows registry proxy settings

Lib/urllib/request.py

@@ -2674,22 +2674,26 @@ def getproxies_registry():
                 # Returned as Unicode but problems if not converted to ASCII
                 proxyServer = str(winreg.QueryValueEx(internetSettings,
                                                        'ProxyServer')[0])
-                if '=' in proxyServer:
-                    # Per-protocol settings
-                    for p in proxyServer.split(';'):
-                        protocol, address = p.split('=', 1)
-                        # See if address has a type:// prefix
-                        if not re.match('(?:[^/:]+)://', address):
-                            address = '%s://%s' % (protocol, address)
-                        proxies[protocol] = address
-                else:
-                    # Use one setting for all protocols
-                    if proxyServer[:5] == 'http:':
-                        proxies['http'] = proxyServer
-                    else:
-                        proxies['http'] = 'http://%s' % proxyServer
-                        proxies['https'] = 'https://%s' % proxyServer
-                        proxies['ftp'] = 'ftp://%s' % proxyServer
+                if '=' not in proxyServer and ';' not in proxyServer:
+                    # Use one setting for all protocols.
+                    proxyServer = 'http={0};https={0};ftp={0}'.format(proxyServer)
+                for p in proxyServer.split(';'):
+                    protocol, address = p.split('=', 1)
+                    # See if address has a type:// prefix
+                    if not re.match('(?:[^/:]+)://', address):
+                        # Add type:// prefix to address without specifying type
+                        if protocol in ('http', 'https', 'ftp'):
+                            # The default proxy type of Windows is HTTP
+                            address = 'http://' + address
+                        elif protocol == 'socks':
+                            address = 'socks://' + address
+                    proxies[protocol] = address
+                # Use SOCKS proxy for HTTP(S) protocols
+                if proxies.get('socks'):
+                    # The default SOCKS proxy type of Windows is SOCKS4
+                    address = re.sub(r'^socks://', 'socks4://', proxies['socks'])
+                    proxies['http'] = proxies['http'] or address
+                    proxies['https'] = proxies['https'] or address
             internetSettings.Close()
         except (OSError, ValueError, TypeError):
             # Either registry key not found etc, or the value in an

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+Fix wrong parsing of Windows registry proxy settings