Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Proxy requests

An interesting feature offered by the Requests module is the possibility to make requests through a proxy or intermediate machine between our internal network and the external network. A proxy is defined in the following way:

>>> proxy = {"protocol":"ip:port", ...}

To make a Request through a proxy, the proxies attribute of the get method is used:

>>> response = requests.get(url,headers=headers,proxies=proxy)

The proxy parameter must be passed in the form of a dictionary; that is, you have to create a dictionary type where we specify the protocol with the IP address and the port where the proxy is listening:

>>> import requests >>> http_proxy = "http://<ip_address>:<port>" >>> proxy_dictionary = { "http" : http_proxy} >>> requests.get("http://example.org", ...