ConnectionError - Overcoming proxy to access ArcGIS Online via the ArcGIS API for Python

[Clubdebambos]

Hello all,

I remote into a machine and there is a proxy in use. I cannot access AGOL via the ArcGIS API for Python. 

I try:

from arcgis.gis import GIS

agol = GIS("home")
or
agol = GIS(url="", username="", password="")

but I consistently get the following error.

ConnectionError: A connection error has occurred: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='xxx.maps.arcgis.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /sharing/rest/portals/self (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x000001B61ED92730>: Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond'))

Note, I can access just fine without the proxy from my laptop, but I must complete work on the remote machine that has the proxy. So accessing AGOL is not the issue, it is overcoming the proxy.

 Any ideas?

Cheers,

[EarlMedina · Accepted solution]

Hey, have you tried using the proxy parameter? I've heard mixed reviews, but hopefully your proxy is more forgiving:

# Usage Exmaple 9: Using a Proxy
proxy = {
    'http': 'http://10.10.1.10:3128',
    'https': 'http://10.10.1.10:1080',
}
gis = GIS(proxy=proxy)

[Clubdebambos]

Hi @EarlMedina 

Excellent, this approach worked. Here's what I was given, this failed to connect.

proxy = {
    "http" : "http://**.***.*.**:XXXX"
}

 This worked when I added the same information for the https key.

proxy = {
    "http" : "http://**.***.*.**:XXXX",
    "https" : "http://**.***.*.**:XXXX"
}

agol = GIS("home", proxy=proxy)

Thanks you!

[jcarlson]

I recently had to downgrade the urllib3 package to get my ArcGIS Python API to work correctly. Did you update your Python env recently?

[Clubdebambos]

Hi @jcarlson 

It was not a recent upgrade, but thank you for your response. This is great to know and I will keep an eye out for this when upgrades happen. Earls solution above worked after testing dictionary configs.

[__JackCharde__]

@jcarlsonthanks for pointing this out. I'm building a new 11.4 replacement for a 10.9.1 environment and wrote a small script to find all items shared to a group in the old portal and share those same layers (by name) in a group in the new portal. I wrote the script in the 10.9.1 environment and it connects to both portals fine. When I copied that script to the 11.4 environment and tried running, it wouldn't connect to the 10.9.1 portal. This is likely why.

- Jack C.