Nginx reverse proxy getting 400 error bad request - nginx

Question

I'm trying to set up nginx as reverse proxy to an application.
When I set up the same request over http it works fine
I think I've done everything and I still have the 400 error. Any help will be really nice.
My nginx configuration file :
user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;
events {
worker_connections 768;
}
http {
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
# server_tokens off;
large_client_header_buffers 4 16k;
client_max_body_size 10M;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log debug;
gzip on;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}
My site configuration :
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
location /eai {
proxy_pass http://192.168.44.128:8000;
}
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/certificates/myssl.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/certificates/myssl.key;
server_name example.com;
location /eai {
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_pass http://192.168.44.128:8000;
}
}
My python code to call the application behind the proxy :
import requests
url = 'https://example.com/eai/request/import'
file_list = [
('file', ('test.csv', open('test.csv', 'rb'), 'text/html')),
]
r = requests.post(url, files=file_list, proxies={"https":"https://192.168.44.241","http":"http://192.168.44.241"}, verify=False)
The info line in the error.log
client sent invalid request while reading client request line, client: 192.168.44.1, server: example.com, request: "CONNECT example.com:443 HTTP/1.0"
Thanks in advance for any help
Regards

Answer 1

Here is your problem:
proxies={"https":"https://192.168.44.241","http":"http://192.168.44.241"}
Your client connection is not actually going through a proxy, so this should not be present at all. You are just making a normal HTTPS request to a normal HTTPS server.