poetry: "Search for package" during poetry init does not work behind a corporate proxy

I am on the latest Poetry version.
I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
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OS version and name: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Poetry version: 0.12.3
Link of a Gist with the contents of your pyproject.toml file: n/a poetry init fails without generating pyproject.toml file

Issue

When running poetry init in an environment behind a corporate proxy, and attempting to interactively resolve dependencies, it times out during the first run of “Search for package” with the following trace

Would you like to define your dependencies (require) interactively? (yes/no) [yes]    



Search for package: requests

                       
[error]  
[Errno 110] Connection timed out                
                        
Exception trace:
 /home/smulcahy/.poetry/lib/poetry/_vendor/py2.7/cleo/application.py in run() at line 94
   status_code = self.do_run(input_, output_)
 /home/smulcahy/.poetry/lib/poetry/console/application.py in do_run() at line 88
   return super(Application, self).do_run(i, o)
 /home/smulcahy/.poetry/lib/poetry/_vendor/py2.7/cleo/application.py in do_run() at line 197
   status_code = command.run(input_, output_)
 /home/smulcahy/.poetry/lib/poetry/console/commands/command.py in run() at line 77
   return super(BaseCommand, self).run(i, o)
 /home/smulcahy/.poetry/lib/poetry/_vendor/py2.7/cleo/commands/base_command.py in run() at line 146
   status_code = self.execute(input_, output_)
 /home/smulcahy/.poetry/lib/poetry/_vendor/py2.7/cleo/commands/command.py in execute() at line 107
   return self.handle()
 /home/smulcahy/.poetry/lib/poetry/console/commands/init.py in handle() at line 116
   self._determine_requirements(self.option("dependency"))
 /home/smulcahy/.poetry/lib/poetry/console/commands/init.py in _determine_requirements() at line 162
   matches = self._get_pool().search(package)
 /home/smulcahy/.poetry/lib/poetry/repositories/pool.py in search() at line 98
   results += repository.search(query, mode=mode)
 /home/smulcahy/.poetry/lib/poetry/repositories/pypi_repository.py in search() at line 203
   hits = client.search(search, "or")
 /usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py in __call__() at line 1243
   return self.__send(self.__name, args)
 /usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py in __request() at line 1602
   verbose=self.__verbose
 /usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py in request() at line 1283
   return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose)
 /usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py in single_request() at line 1311
   self.send_content(h, request_body)
 /usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py in send_content() at line 1459
   connection.endheaders(request_body)
 /usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py in endheaders() at line 1038
   self._send_output(message_body)
 /usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py in _send_output() at line 882
   self.send(msg)
 /usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py in send() at line 844
   self.connect()
 /usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py in connect() at line 1255
   HTTPConnection.connect(self)
 /usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py in connect() at line 821
   self.timeout, self.source_address)
 /usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py in create_connection() at line 575
   raise err

The problem seems to arise in xmlrpclib which doesn’t include built-in support for http or https proxies. https://docs.python.org/2/library/xmlrpclib.html#example-of-client-usage includes an example of how to instruct xmlrpclib to use a proxy. I’m not sure if the same approach will work for xmlrpc.client.

I’m not sure if poetry wants to default to the proxies defined in the users environment variables if they’re set (typically some of http_proxy, https_proxy, no_proxy, HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, NO_PROXY) or to explicitly require a user to pass a proxy arg to poetry. Either one works although using the environment variables if set is what other tools do by default.

Thanks

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions: 6
Comments: 21 (5 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

This was actually a Poetry problem, but due to user error. I couldn’t find the docs which detailed the poetry self add syntax, and also didn’t know I was looking for a problem there. My original understanding was that Poetry used the packages in the current venv you are in, so I had pysocks installed there and globally just to make sure, but it still wouldn’t work and none of the previous issues I found detailed how to do it.

When I came across the docs for adding packages to the Poetry venv I managed to get it working, but thanks for following up 🙂

bjmd on Jun 15, 2023

Current versions of Poetry respect the PROXY_/proxy_ environmental variables in poetry search.

neersighted on Oct 11, 2022

I’m getting the same ImportError and I’m not using any proxy.

Edit: traceback (poetry init -vvv)

Would you like to define your dependencies (require) interactively? (yes/no) [yes] 



Search for package: beautifulsoup4

                                                                                                                       
[ImportError]                                                                                           
cannot import name 'LegacyRepository' from 'poetry.repositories.legacy_repository' (/home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.  
7/site-packages/poetry/repositories/legacy_repository.py)                                                            
                                                                                                                       
Exception trace:
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cleo/application.py in run() at line 94
   status_code = self.do_run(input_, output_)
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/poetry/console/application.py in do_run() at line 88
   return super(Application, self).do_run(i, o)
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cleo/application.py in do_run() at line 197
   status_code = command.run(input_, output_)
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/poetry/console/commands/command.py in run() at line 77
   return super(BaseCommand, self).run(i, o)
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cleo/commands/base_command.py in run() at line 146
   status_code = self.execute(input_, output_)
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cleo/commands/command.py in execute() at line 107
   return self.handle()
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/poetry/console/commands/init.py in handle() at line 126
   self._determine_requirements(self.option("dependency"))
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/poetry/console/commands/init.py in _determine_requirements() at line 172
   matches = self._get_pool().search(package)
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/poetry/repositories/pool.py in search() at line 73
   from .legacy_repository import LegacyRepository
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/poetry/repositories/legacy_repository.py in <module>() at line 33
   from poetry.masonry.publishing.uploader import wheel_file_re
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/poetry/masonry/__init__.py in <module>() at line 10
   from .builder import Builder
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/poetry/masonry/builder.py in <module>() at line 1
   from .builders import CompleteBuilder
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/poetry/masonry/builders/__init__.py in <module>() at line 1
   from .complete import CompleteBuilder
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/poetry/masonry/builders/complete.py in <module>() at line 4
   import poetry.poetry
 /home/dawid/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/poetry/poetry.py in <module>() at line 18
   from .repositories.legacy_repository import LegacyRepository

Edit2: this seems to be fixed in 750e31de98b84e294ac6c5798ad8c4656be9dd2e cc @mulcahys

silenc3r on Dec 6, 2018

I just tried this in Windows, and I was able to get the proxy to work using: $ set HTTPS_PROXY=<proxyHost>:<proxyPort> I think the equivalent in Ubuntu is: $ export HTTPS_PROXY=<proxyHost>:<proxyPort>

If it works, this could be added to your ~/.bashrc as a setting.

If we verify that this works in Ubuntu, this would be a great addition to submit a PR to the documentation.

danyeaw on Dec 3, 2018