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BrandonS
BrandonS

Reputation: 11

Python - Why won't my request use the proxy provided and display my public IP instead

So I am trying to implement a proxy service into my script however, after looking at different solutions, my script won't return the proxy's IP address.

Code:

import requests

http_proxy  = "http://181.59.126.156:8080"

proxyDict = { 
              "http"  : http_proxy, 
            }


r = requests.get("https://api.ipify.org/", proxies=proxyDict)

print(r.text)

This returns my real public IP Address when I need it to return the proxies IP address to confirm the proxy is being used when making the HTTP request.

Ipify is the API I am using for testing purposes.

Any Help would be appreciated - Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 440

Answers (1)

gkpln3
gkpln3

Reputation: 1499

That's because your proxy is routing only HTTP requests while your request is done over HTTPS.

To achieve what you want you will need to set up HTTPS proxy like so:

import requests

https_proxy  = "http://181.59.126.156:[https_proxy_port]"

proxyDict = { 
              "https"  : https_proxy, 
            }


r = requests.get("https://api.ipify.org/", proxies=proxyDict)

print(r.text)

Upvotes: 2

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