Question

I know how to use requests very well, yet for some reason I am not succeeding in getting the proxies working. I am making the following request:

r = requests.get('http://whatismyip.com', proxies={'http': 'http://148.236.5.92:8080'})

I get the following:

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed b
ecause the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or e
stablished connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

Yet, I know the proxy works, because using node:

request.get({uri: 'http://www.whatismyip.com', proxy: 'http://148.236.5.92:8080'},
    function (err, response, body) {var $ = cheerio.load(body); console.log($('#greenip').text());});

I get the following (correct) response:

148.236.5.92

Furthermore, when I try the requests request at all differently (say, without writing http:// in front of the proxy), it just allows the request to go through normally without going through a proxy or returning an error.

What am I doing wrong in Python?

Answer 1

As sigmavirus24 says, this is a known issue, which has been fixed, but hasn’t yet been packaged up into a new version and pushed to PyPI.

So, if you need this in a hurry, you can upgrade from the git repo’s master.

If you’re using pip, this is simple. Instead of this:

pip install -U requests

Do this:

pip install -U git+https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests

If you’re not using pip, you’ll probably have to explicitly git clone the repo, then easy_install . or python setup.py or whatever from your local copy.