Mastering Python for Networking and Security

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