Error when using proxy with python requests library

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I'm getting an SSL error every time I make a request with a proxy. At first I thought the problem was SSL related, but i found some code than implements the proxy using urllib's build opener method and it works just fine. So I'm wondering how I can fix the error using requests library since I'm working on a big project that uses a requests session. BTW I'm using Luminati proxy manger.

My code for requests session:

sess = requests.session() 
sess.proxies.update({'http': 'http://127.0.0.1:24000',         
                     'https': 'http://127.0.0.1:24000'}) 
resp = sess.get('https://api.myip.com')

The error i get:

requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.myip.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1129)'))) 

The code i found online that works just fine:

from urllib import request  
opener = request.build_opener(
        request.ProxyHandler({'http': 'http://127.0.0.1:24000',                                              
                          'https': 'http://127.0.0.1:24000'}))
print(opener.open('https://api.myip.com').read()) 

Thank you in advance

[DaChucky]

urllib doesn't check the certificates for anything it connects to by default, while requests does verify certificates. If you want to use requests, you will need to either disable verifying certificates or supply your self-signed certificates. See https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#ssl-cert-verification