Unable to post request to Infura (SSLError: EOF occurred in violation of protocol)

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1

Hi all, I am new to IPFS and trying to create python script to upload some images to Infura IPFS.

I am trying to post my request like that:

endpoint = "https://ipfs.infura.io:5001"
response = requests.post(endpoint + '/api/v0/add?wrap-with-directory=true', files=files, auth=(projectId, projectSecret))

I get following error from requests library:

requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='ipfs.infura.io', port=5001): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/v0/add?wrap-with-directory=true (Caused by SSLError(SSLEOFError(8, 'EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:2396)')))

I tried to look for answers on stackoverflow, somebody recommends installing the following:

pip install ndg-httpsclient
pip install pyopenssl
pip install pyasn1

but it did not solve my issue. Any help would be really appreciated

2

Hey, are you getting the same error if you try without passing auth in requests.post ?

3

request.post works without passing auth data and seems like file is uploaded, but IPFS fails to load it.
Example of uploaded file (time outs): QmTstzGVWMM1ZdvSkYLcJNEx7iCfb92vzuNmBmnDzPcoF6

4

It seems to load fine via Infura gw, there is a propagation delay to the public gateway:

“https://ipfs.infura.io/ipfs/QmTstzGVWMM1ZdvSkYLcJNEx7iCfb92vzuNmBmnDzPcoF6”

5

That is great, but how can I setup upload trough specific project on Infura so auth would work? Anybody faced similar issues trying to post Infura API requests using Python on Windows?

6

Weird, I’ve just tested this script with auth and it works well for me. Can you try to run it and see if you get the same error ? (replace the file path and auth data ofc):

import requests

import json

files = {

'file': (open('<file_path_here>', 'rb')),

}

project_id = '...'

project_secret = '...'

response = requests.post('https://ipfs.infura.io:5001/api/v0/add', files=files, auth=(project_id, project_secret))

p = response.json()

hash = p['Hash']

print(hash)