new: Support for proxies to connect to the instance

pyvulnerabilitylookup/api.py

@@ -11,10 +11,13 @@
 
 class PyVulnerabilityLookup():
 
- def __init__(self, root_url: str, useragent: Optional[str]=None):
+ def __init__(self, root_url: str, useragent: Optional[str]=None,
+ *, proxies: Optional[Dict[str, str]]=None):
  '''Query a specific instance.
 
  :param root_url: URL of the instance to query.
+ :param useragent: The User Agent used by requests to run the HTTP requests against the vulnerability lookup instance
+ :param proxies: The proxies to use to connect to the vulnerability lookup instance - More details: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies
  '''
  self.root_url = root_url
 
@@ -24,6 +27,8 @@ def __init__(self, root_url: str, useragent: Optional[str]=None):
  self.root_url += '/'
  self.session = requests.session()
  self.session.headers['user-agent'] = useragent if useragent else f'PyProject / {version("pyvulnerabilitylookup")}'
+ if proxies:
+ self.session.proxies.update(proxies)
 
  @property
  def is_up(self) -> bool: