Should we add proxy argument in the client...?

[YooSunYoung]

Problem

I was testing the scitacean interface with local instance.
It worked just fine at the office.
And then I came home and continued working on it then I got ConnectError...

Environment

• My local laptop (mac)
• Local instance of scicat (from ScicatLive)
  • Connecting to the staging scicat backend wasn't a problem. It also raised an error when the proxy was set http://localhost manually.

Trouble Shooting Attempts

All the arguments looked fine and when I tried the api with curl it worked fine.

Then I tried hard-coding proxy to be http://localhost in the code block below and it worked...!

And then I removed the hard-coded line and connected to ess VPN and then now it works again.

scitacean/src/scitacean/client.py

Lines 1176 to 1185 in f21e8dd

	return httpx.request(
	method=cmd,
	url=url,
	content=data.model_dump_json(exclude_none=True)
	if data is not None
	else None,
	params=params,
	headers=headers,
	timeout=self._timeout.seconds,
	)

Hardcode-fix:

  return httpx.request(
      method=cmd,
      url=url,
      content=data.model_dump_json(exclude_none=True)
      if data is not None
      else None,
      params=params,
      headers=headers,
      timeout=self._timeout.seconds,
      proxy="http://localhost"
  )

[jl-wynen]

Can you be more specific? Why did you need a proxy with httpx but not with curl?

[YooSunYoung]

Can you be more specific? Why did you need a proxy with httpx but not with curl?

🤷‍♀️ I do not know... should I dig into the underlying problem...?

[YooSunYoung]

@jl-wynen I updated the description to be more clear...!