Python – postman’s GET request is running, but it does not work with python (HTTPSConnectionPool)

I’m trying to get JSON from an API that can then be displayed on a website built with django, which is made using rest_framework. I’ve tried Requests and http.client but I’m getting the same error :

HTTPSConnectionPool(host=’webpageUrl’ port=443): The maximum number of retries exceeds url:/api/donations (indicated by ConnectTimeoutError(

I’ve tried debugging with a GET request in Postman and it works great, but I get the above error when I use the example provided in the Requests library documentation or use the code snippet generated in Postman. Also, I used to have basic authentication and I thought this was the source of the problem, so I turned off authentication but it didn’t work.

This is the code I’m currently trying :

import requests

def available_donations(request):

assert isinstance(request,HttpRequest)
    response = requests.get("webpageUrl/api/donations", headers={'Content-Type':'application/json'}, timeout=5)

return render(
        request,
        'app/availableDonations.html', {'donation':response},
        {
            'title':'Overview of available donations'

})

I

expected to get an error about web page rendering, but from what I’ve read from different stackoverflow issues, the error means it can’t find the page.

Thanks in advance!

Edit 1:

I tried running the snippet code from postman on my personal computer and it worked fine. I think the problem is that it can’t make HTTP requests to the API (on the same server) using the method I use. Also, I tried to run a virtual different virtual API using this efficient method.

I

found that the method I used didn’t work for internal HTTPS requests. I use ifconfig to look at the local IP address and use it instead of the host and put the IP address in the ALLOWED_HOSTS of settings.py. Also, I disabled SSL validation with verify=False

def getDonations():

url = "https://172.19.10.5/api/donations"
    payload = ""
    headers = {
    'cache-control': "no-cache",
    }

response = requests.request("GET", url, data=payload, headers=headers, timeout=5, verify=False)
    print(response.text)
    return response.text