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$ export HTTP_PROXY="http://10.10.1.10:3128"
$ export HTTPS_PROXY="http://10.10.1.10:1080"
$ export NO_PROXY="www.example.com,10.20.1.128,10.20.2.0/24"
$ export ALL_PROXY="socks5://10.10.1.10:3434"

$ python
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Note that proxy URLs must include the scheme.

To exclude a specific scheme and host from a proxy configuration,
set it to an empty string so a direct connection is used:

::

proxies = {
'http': 'http://10.10.1.10:3128',
'https': 'http://10.10.1.10:1080',
'http://10.20.1.128': '',
}

Note that adding ``no_proxy`` to the ``proxies`` dictionary for this purpose is not
supported.

Finally, note that using a proxy for https connections typically requires your
local machine to trust the proxy's root certificate. By default the list of
certificates trusted by Requests can be found with::
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