Trouble with connecting to Geopunt metadata

[BrechtCuyvers]

Hi there,

Currently I'm using QGIS 3.4.12 Madeira and I installed the Geopunt4QGIS plugin. When I try to open the Geopunt catalogue, I get this error. Does someone know what to do? The other features from this plugin do work!

kind regards

[JGMieco]

Hello,

Currently, I have the same problem. Have you find the solution in the meanwhile?

Thank you!

[rduivenvoorde]

I can confirm this to, when working on a belgian government machine (which retrieves it's proxies via a so called pac file).
Apparently current code does not retrieve the proxies?

As an example, the following works:

url = "https://basisregisters.vlaanderen.be/api/v1/gemeenten/?limit=50&offset=0"
request = QNetworkRequest(QtCore.QUrl(url))
r = QgsBlockingNetworkRequest()
r.get(request)
reply = r.reply()
print(f'content: {reply.content()}')

On this QGIS machine which works fine with network requests.

But this code (taken from basisregisters.py) results in a timeout

from urllib.request import getproxies
proxies = getproxies()
data = {'limit' : 500 , 'offset': 0}
requests.get("https://basisregisters.vlaanderen.be/api/v1/gemeenten/", params=data, timeout=3, verify=False, proxies=proxies ).json()

Another advantage of using the QGIS classes is that the requests can be viewed/debugged in the networkdebugger window of QGIS (F12).

When searching for a solution I also found this Python issue, which is maybe related: https://bugs.python.org/issue42627

[rduivenvoorde]

For others, the plugin code does NOT pickup the proxy.vlaanderen.be proxy defined in QGIS settings, BUT !!!
you can just set it in the geopunt4Qgis-plugin settings.
Via menu Web /geopunt4Qgis / Settings:

You can go to overrule the system-proxy, probably you should use http://proxy.vlaanderen.be:8080 as seen below

Now the plugin is working :-)