Can´t run behind authenticated proxy

[jarretinha]

After reading the api code, I wasn´t able to find a place to configure an authenticated proxy. I know urllib2 and urllib.requests have some support for proxies. But, it´s not clear for me the simplest way to add it to the requests. Could you help me find a good spot?

[JacobMaciejewski]

Have you found a way to fetch data through a proxy? The most obvious, but not straightforward solution would be to overwrite the APIRequest, Connection, and ECMWFDataServer objects respectively. If you managed to deliver a working version, could you share it?

[cristian-codorean]

@JacobMaciejewski, proxy support should be available, but currently only through environment variables on Unix-based systems, haven't checked on Windows.

That is, one could do something like:

export https_proxy=proxy_url
python my_webapi_script.py

Or:

https_proxy=proxy_url python my_webapi_script.py

Where proxy_url is the url of your proxy server, which can include authentication information, port, etc., e.g. http://user:pass@domain:port.

Note that one needs to set https_proxy since the the ECMWF WebAPI uses https.

Also note that by default the ecmwf-api-client should respect any system wide defined proxy environment variables.

Of course, one could do the above directly in Python, before the ecmwf-api-client specific code:

import os
os.environ["https_proxy"] = "proxy_url"

Let me know if that works for you, I can have another look otherwise.

[JacobMaciejewski]

This is exactly how I resolved the problem. Thanks for the extensive answer, it will help people in the future.

[cristian-codorean]

Good to hear. Will look into updating the docs to mention it.