Proxy¶

Configure proxy server for requests.

Basic Usage¶

from fasthttp import FastHTTP

app = FastHTTP(proxy="http://proxy.example.com:8080")

Proxy Types¶

# HTTP proxy
app = FastHTTP(proxy="http://proxy.example.com:8080")

# HTTPS proxy
app = FastHTTP(proxy="https://proxy.example.com:8080")

# Proxy with authentication
app = FastHTTP(proxy="http://user:password@proxy.example.com:8080")

# SOCKS5 proxy
app = FastHTTP(proxy="socks5://proxy.example.com:1080")

Example¶

from fasthttp import FastHTTP
from fasthttp.response import Response

app = FastHTTP(
    proxy="http://proxy.example.com:8080",
    get_request={"timeout": 30.0},
)


@app.get(url="https://httpbin.org/get")
async def test_proxy(resp: Response) -> dict:
    return resp.json()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()

Environment Variables¶

You can also configure proxy via environment variables:

import os
from fasthttp import FastHTTP

app = FastHTTP(
    proxy=os.getenv("HTTP_PROXY") or os.getenv("HTTPS_PROXY"),
)

.env File¶

HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080
HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080

Use Cases¶

Bypassing network restrictions
Load balancing
Caching
Security filtering
Geographic restrictions