Proxy not working

[darkvertex]

My package user settings look like this:

{
    "api_key": "mykey",
    "hidefilenames": false,
    "proxy": "http://alan:password@192.168.253.253:3178"
}

and my ~/.wakatime.cfg looks like this:

[settings]
debug = false
hidefilenames = false
proxy = http://alan:password@192.168.253.253:3178
api_key = mykey

I looked at https://wakatime.com/api/v1/users/current while logged in and saw lines:

    "last_heartbeat": null,
    "last_plugin": null,
    "last_plugin_name": null,
    "last_project": null,

so I guess it's not working.

What am I doing wrong?

[alanhamlett]

Let's set debug to true and check $HOME\.wakatime.log for more detailed info. Any hints in there?

[darkvertex]

Sure. Here we go:

{
  "now": "2015/07/07 18:07:42 +0000",
  "version": "4.0.16",
  "plugin": "sublime/3083 sublime-wakatime/4.0.8",
  "time": 1436306797.3847189,
  "caller": "/mnt/users/alan/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/WakaTime/packages/wakatime/base.py",
  "lineno": 384,
  "isWrite": true,
  "file": "/mnt/users/alan/somefile.py",
  "level": "WARNING",
  "message": {
    "traceback": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/mnt/users/alan/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/WakaTime/packages/wakatime/base.py\", line 373, in send_heartbeat\n    proxies=proxies)\n  File \"/mnt/users/alan/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/WakaTime/packages/wakatime/packages/requests/sessions.py\", line 507, in post\n    return self.request('POST', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)\n  File \"/mnt/users/alan/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/WakaTime/packages/wakatime/packages/requests/sessions.py\", line 464, in request\n    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)\n  File \"/mnt/users/alan/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/WakaTime/packages/wakatime/packages/requests/sessions.py\", line 576, in send\n    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)\n  File \"/mnt/users/alan/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/WakaTime/packages/wakatime/packages/requests/adapters.py\", line 424, in send\n    raise ConnectionError(e, request=request)\nConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='wakatime.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/v1/heartbeats (Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', error(110, 'Connection timed out')))\n",
    "ConnectionError": "HTTPSConnectionPool(host='wakatime.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/v1/heartbeats (Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', error(110, 'Connection timed out')))"
  }
}

(It was all one line, I added spacing for clarity.)

[darkvertex]

Is there a way to configure it to try without SSL? Maybe my ssl libs are messed up or something.

[alanhamlett]

Does your http proxy support https connections?

[alanhamlett]

You can't disable https, because the wakatime api will reject your api request if it's over http.

[darkvertex]

Yes it does. Or rather, I use it with a web browser (Chromium) at work and I go to https:// links all the time without problems... so I guess it works with https.

[alanhamlett]

Let's try testing the proxy with plain Python and the requests library. WakaTime just does a simple https POST request passing requests the proxy: https://github.com/wakatime/sublime-wakatime/blob/f0b518862a69b478553f4ed4bbe3526a8f0e320b/packages/wakatime/base.py#L354

We can test the proxy setting with python on the command line inside the sublime-wakatime git repo directory:

$ cd sublime-wakatime
$ cd packages
$ python
>>> from wakatime.packages import requests
>>> proxies = {'https': 'https://user:pass@localhost:8000'}
>>> response = requests.get('https://google.com/', proxies=proxies)
>>> print(response.status_code)

Change the proxies until it works. Maybe try adding the proxy to the http key instead of the https key.

[darkvertex]

Hi Alan, Sorry for not testing sooner; this fell through piles of emails. Anyhow, I got your sample working if proxies looks like:

proxies = {
'http': 'http://alan:password@myfirewall:port',
'https': 'http://alan:password@myfirewall:port'
}

Seems as if proxies doesn't have an https entry, it won't go through for any https:// urls and also my firewall proxy itself still needs to go via http even for https sites.

So now knowing this, I should ask... does the ~/.wakatime.cfg "proxy" entry get used for both http and https requests? Is it populating the proxies dict for both http and https keys? If not, that might be the issue.

[alanhamlett]

It only populates the https key of the proxies argument because wakatime only makes requests to https urls, so if your ~/.wakatime.cfg has a line like:

proxy = http://alan:password@myfirewall:port

Then your proxies argument would be generated like:

proxies = {
    'https': 'http://alan:password@myfirewall:port',
}

[alanhamlett]

Fixed in the latest version.