How to configure VPN?

Hello,

Before I introduce my problem, I would like to make a short preview about how the problem happened. Recently I have come to China. I know there is a firewall in this country, so I bought a VPN to help me deal with the banning problem. After I applied the method of using proxy IP, it raised the error as below. I have checked out the #2522 and #4540, but I found the error responses are different. And I cannot solve the problem. Please lead me to solve the problem. Thanks~

• OS: windows 10
• Programming Language version: python 3.7
• CCXT version: 1.28.85
• VPN: Express

exchange = ccxt.binance({
    'proxies': {
        'http': 'http://45.135.186.113:49665',
        'https': 'https://45.135.186.113:49665',
    },
})
markets = exchange.load_markets()
print(markets)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\subao\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 171, in _new_conn
    (self._dns_host, self.port), self.timeout, **extra_kw)
  File "C:\Users\subao\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\connection.py", line 79, in create_connection
    raise err
  File "C:\Users\subao\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\connection.py", line 69, in create_connection
    sock.connect(sa)
socket.timeout: timed out

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 594, in urlopen
    self._prepare_proxy(conn)
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 815, in _prepare_proxy
    conn.connect()
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 314, in connect
    conn = self._new_conn()
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 176, in _new_conn
    (self.host, self.timeout))
urllib3.exceptions.ConnectTimeoutError: (<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x000001FFEE28F240>, 'Connection to 45.135.186.113 timed out. (connect timeout=10)')

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 449, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 638, in urlopen
    _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 398, in increment
    raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.binance.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/v3/exchangeInfo (Caused by ConnectTimeoutError(<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x000001FFEE28F240>, 'Connection to 45.135.186.113 timed out. (connect timeout=10)'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\ccxt\base\exchange.py", line 548, in fetch
    verify=self.verify
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 530, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 643, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 504, in send
    raise ConnectTimeout(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectTimeout: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.binance.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/v3/exchangeInfo (Caused by ConnectTimeoutError(<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x000001FFEE28F240>, 'Connection to 45.135.186.113 timed out. (connect timeout=10)'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./timezone_adj.py", line 15, in <module>
    markets = exchange.load_markets()
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\ccxt\base\exchange.py", line 1298, in load_markets
    markets = self.fetch_markets(params)
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\ccxt\binance.py", line 386, in fetch_markets
    response = getattr(self, method)(query)
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\ccxt\base\exchange.py", line 449, in inner
    return entry(_self, **inner_kwargs)
  File ".\Python37\lib\site-packages\ccxt\binance.py", line 1928, in request
    response = self.fetch2(path, api, method, params, headers, body)
  File ".\site-packages\ccxt\base\exchange.py", line 468, in fetch2
    return self.fetch(request['url'], request['method'], request['headers'], request['body'])
  File ".\site-packages\ccxt\base\exchange.py", line 568, in fetch
    raise RequestTimeout(method + ' ' + url)
ccxt.base.errors.RequestTimeout: GET https://api.binance.com/api/v3/exchangeInfo

[mick-liu]

@mick-liu if you’re using ExpressVPN, this might help: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+configure+expressvpn+windows+10, usually you get the instructions upon signing up with the VPN provider. I’d close this issue for now since it’s not really an issue with CCXT. It’s more about the VPN configuration that depends on your OS and on your VPN provider. Feel free to reopen it if needed or just ask further questions if any. We will be thankful for your feedback, let us know if you have a followup on this.

I solved the problem by applying the method that you mentioned. Thank you so much! @kroitor 👍

[kroitor]

@mick-liu if you’re using ExpressVPN, this might help: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+configure+expressvpn+windows+10, usually you get the instructions upon signing up with the VPN provider. I’d close this issue for now since it’s not really an issue with CCXT. It’s more about the VPN configuration that depends on your OS and on your VPN provider. Feel free to reopen it if needed or just ask further questions if any. We will be thankful for your feedback, let us know if you have a followup on this.