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Requests proxy error

N Network Medium

🔴 Error Message

ProxyError: Cannot connect through proxy

📖 What This Means

Proxy configuration wrong or proxy down.

🔧 Step-by-Step Fix

  1. Set proxy: requests.get(url, proxies={"http":"http://proxy:8080"})
  2. Or env: export HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy:8080
  3. Verify proxy works: curl -x proxy:8080 http://example.com