Proxy support in OWSLib

[FilippoPagano]

Hello,

I added proxy support for the library.

#512

Let me know

Regards,
Filippo Pagano
Software engineer

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[geographika]

Thanks for this @FilippoPagano.

Would you be able to add the :param proxies to the docstring of openURL, and also the other functions where it has been added and the other parameters are documented?

For reference, this pull request passes the proxies to the requests library: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies

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[geographika]

Note even without this pull request it should be possible to use proxies by setting environment variables as described at https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies

$ export HTTP_PROXY="http://10.10.1.10:3128"
$ export HTTPS_PROXY="http://10.10.1.10:1080"
$ export ALL_PROXY="socks5://10.10.1.10:3434"

$ python
>>> import requests
>>> requests.get('http://example.org')

[FilippoPagano]

Ye,s but this PR is usefull when you want to specify a proxy for a specific call, and not at a system level… so your other services can run regularly Il giorno dom 26 gen 2025 alle 10:47 Seth G ***@***.***> ha scritto:

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Note even without this pull request it should be possible to use proxies by setting environment variables as described at https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies $ export HTTP_PROXY="http://10.10.1.10:3128" $ export HTTPS_PROXY="http://10.10.1.10:1080" $ export ALL_PROXY="socks5://10.10.1.10:3434" $ python>>> import requests>>> requests.get('http://example.org') — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#927 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AB25KMARZUR2DYO3IHK4TS32MSVJVAVCNFSM6AAAAABH2MOC66VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDMMJUGMYDCMRZGA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[tomkralidis]

Ye,s but this PR is usefull when you want to specify a proxy for a specific call, and not at a system level… so your other services can run regularly Il giorno dom 26 gen 2025 alle 10:47 Seth G @.> ha scritto:
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Note even without this pull request it should be possible to use proxies by setting environment variables as described at https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies $ export HTTP_PROXY="http://10.10.1.10:3128" $ export HTTPS_PROXY="http://10.10.1.10:1080" $ export ALL_PROXY="socks5://10.10.1.10:3434" $ python>>> import requests>>> requests.get('http://example.org') — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#927 (comment)>, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AB25KMARZUR2DYO3IHK4TS32MSVJVAVCNFSM6AAAAABH2MOC66VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDMMJUGMYDCMRZGA . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: @.>

Note that you can also set this at the application level without a change to OWSLib:

import os
import requests

os.environ['HTTP_PROXY'] = 'http://foo'

print(requests.get('http://example.org'))

[geographika]

@FilippoPagano - thanks for the pull request. However, I think the options outlined above should be sufficient for most use-cases. I've added these options to the docs in #975.

If per-request proxy support is important to you, this can be reconsidered. The pull request would need to be rebased against master, and docstring params added to all changed function definitions.