generateToken request from Python and dynamic IP addresses generate errors

Question

I'm having some issues with using tokens I generate from a Python script by hitting a public ArcGIS Server's generateToken endpoint.

Our IT routes traffic in some convoluted ways (which is to say dynamically) such that using a token generated from a generateToken request using 'client':'requestip' in the parameters sometimes will end up with a token denied error.  Basically, if the generateToken request first comes from ip address B, but then the REST request comes from IP address B but uses the token generated from ip address A, I'll get an error.

I'm curious if there is a way around this somehow without going through IT. I'm unclear how I would use 'client':'referer' in the generateToken request, since this is coming from a Python script being run on a server and not a webapp.  Is this even possible?

JoshuaBixby · Accepted Answer

Every arcgis.gis.GIS and arcgis.gis.server.Server has an underlying connection object that has an underlying Requests session. You just need to set the token based on a referrer and then update your Requests session header to reflect it: >>> from arcgis.gis.server import Server >>> >>> kwargs = { ... 'url': , ... 'username': , ... 'password': ... } >>> >>> svr = Server(**kwargs) >>> >>> svr._con <arcgis.gis._impl._con._connection.Connection object at 0x00000164C182FD68> >>> >>> svr._con._session <requests.sessions.Session object at 0x00000164C6988128> >>> >>> svr._con._session.headers {'User-Agent': 'Geosaurus/1.8.0', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate', 'Accept': '*/*', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'Referer': 'http'} >>> >>> svr._con._session.headers['referrer'] = r'http://www.whateveryoulike.com/myscript' >>> >>> svr._con._session.headers {'User-Agent': 'Geosaurus/1.8.0', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate', 'Accept': '*/*', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'Referer': 'http', 'referrer': 'http://www.whateveryoulike.com/myscript'} >>> >>>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍