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Tim
Tim

Reputation: 3427

Selenium Proxy Error when intializing webdriver

When using selenium for work behind enterprise firewall, it's necessary to connect to proxy to access internet. However, selenium is returning proxy error even when initializing the webdriver.

from selenium import webdriver

proxy='x.x.x.x:xxx'
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument(f'--proxy-server={proxy}')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)

Getting 401 unauthorized error even before visiting any webpage.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 65

Answers (1)

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 3427

After exhaustive search to no avail. Because the webdriver initialization only connects to localhost, it shouldn't need proxy. Adding the '--no-proxy-server' option resolved this issue. This was suggested by chatgpt but not for the right reason.

from selenium import webdriver

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument(f'--no-proxy-server')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)

Upvotes: 0

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