Fetch Olivetti Faces with Proxy

Question

I am trying to fetch Olivetti faces from the sklearn dataset but I get an URLError. I know the error is because usually I need to go through a proxy for any outside request.

In this case I don't see an option to declare a proxy url for the fetch_olivetti_faces() method. Any suggestions on how to execute this request through a proxy?

from sklearn import datasets
olivetti = datasets.fetch_olivetti_faces()

Answer 1

It looks like with the Enthought Canopy Editor you can setup a proxy under Edit > Preferences and select the option to Pass these proxy settings to terminal and ipython: Yes

Note: For me the changes took effect after i did a Kernel under restart Run > Kernel Restart