Bigdata supports a proxy setup on the client’s side. By setting a proxy you can redirect output traffic and work with it before it leaves your network. This is useful for debugging, security, and privacy reasons.

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Set up

You can set it up in two ways, by providing the information using environment variables or by providing the configuration directly into the Bigdata object. Note that the proxy interacts with the code at a very low level so it is recommended to not combine the two methods.

Example:

from bigdata_client import Bigdata
from bigdata_client.auth import Proxy

bigdata = Bigdata(proxy=Proxy(url="http://127.0.0.1:3128"))

Or provide the proxy using environment variables:

export HTTPS_PROXY="http://127.0.0.1:3128"

HTTPS_PROXY="http://user:pass@127.0.0.1:3128"