proxy support required for use in private subnets without internet egress (PCI, IRAP, ISM, SOC2, ISO27018)

[chrisdlangton]

proxy support required for use in private subnets without internet egress (PCI, IRAP, ISM, SOC2, ISO27018)

[childish-sambino]

This repo uses urllib but it does not expose its interfaces for adding request handlers:

python-http-client/python_http_client/client.py

Lines 259 to 264 in 5404e15

	opener = urllib.build_opener()
	request = urllib.Request(
	self._build_url(query_params),
	headers=self.request_headers,
	data=data,
	)

I think adding a proxies arg to def http_request which would just be passed to a new ProxyHandler that's passed to the opener would work. Then the interface would look similar to that of requests. This would not handle the env vars use case, but that may not be difficult.

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