"Connection aborted" and "Cannot connect to proxy"

Question

When the code bellow is running

import requests
monitor_r = requests.get(monitor_url, proxies=proxies, timeout=60*4)

I get these exceptions:

('Connection aborted.', BadStatusLine("''",))
# and 
('Cannot connect to proxy.', error(32, 'Broken pipe')))

What are these errors and how to fix them?

Answer 1

This link suggests that it is caused at the httplib level.

1. It may be caused by trying to connect to a https url using http try using https:// and see if it works...
2. Double check your url doesn't contain any dodgy characters
3. Check your proxy is accepting headers