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Why does the proxy server use my private IP?

I am trying to scrape using proxies (this proxy server is a free one from the internet); in particular I would like to use their IP, not my private one. To test my script I am trying to Access "http://whatismyipaddress.com/" to see which IP this site sees. As it turns out it will see my private IP. Can somebody tell me what's wrong here?
import requests
from fake_useragent import UserAgent
def getMyIP(proxyServer,myPrivateIP):
scrape_website = "http://whatismyipaddress.com/"
ua = UserAgent()
headers = {'User-Agent': ua.random}
try:
response = requests.get(scrape_website,headers=headers,proxies={"https":proxyServer})
except:
faultString = proxyServer + " did not work; " + "\n"
print(faultString)
return
if myPrivateIP in str(response.content):
print("They found my private IP.")
proxyServer = "http://103.250.158.23:61219"
myPrivateIP = "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
getMyIP(proxyServer,myPrivateIP)

Two things:
You set an {'https': ...} proxy configuration. This means for any HTTPS requests, it will use that proxy. You're requesting an HTTP URL however, so that proxy isn't getting used. Configure an 'http' proxy instead or in addition.
If the proxy forwards your IP in an HTTP header, and the target server heeds that header, that's tough luck and nothing you can do anything about, besides using a different proxy which doesn't forward your IP. I think point 1 is more likely the issue though.

How can I open a website with urllib via proxy in Python?

I have this program that check a website, and I want to know how can I check it via proxy in Python...
this is the code, just for example
while True:
try:
h = urllib.urlopen(website)
break
except:
print '['+time.strftime('%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S')+'] '+'ERROR. Trying again in a few seconds...'
time.sleep(5)

By default, urlopen uses the environment variable http_proxy to determine which HTTP proxy to use:
$ export http_proxy='http://myproxy.example.com:1234'
$ python myscript.py # Using http://myproxy.example.com:1234 as a proxy
If you instead want to specify a proxy inside your application, you can give a proxies argument to urlopen:
proxies = {'http': 'http://myproxy.example.com:1234'}
print("Using HTTP proxy %s" % proxies['http'])
urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.com", proxies=proxies)
Edit: If I understand your comments correctly, you want to try several proxies and print each proxy as you try it. How about something like this?
candidate_proxies = ['http://proxy1.example.com:1234',
'http://proxy2.example.com:1234',
'http://proxy3.example.com:1234']
for proxy in candidate_proxies:
print("Trying HTTP proxy %s" % proxy)
try:
result = urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.com", proxies={'http': proxy})
print("Got URL using proxy %s" % proxy)
break
except:
print("Trying next proxy in 5 seconds")
time.sleep(5)

Python 3 is slightly different here. It will try to auto detect proxy settings but if you need specific or manual proxy settings, think about this kind of code:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import urllib.request
proxy_support = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({'http' : 'http://user:pass#server:port',
'https': 'https://...'})
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(proxy_support)
urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
# ... implement things such as 'html = response.read()'
Refer also to the relevant section in the Python 3 docs

Here example code guide how to use urllib to connect via proxy:
authinfo = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
proxy_support = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({"http" : "http://ahad-haam:3128"})
# build a new opener that adds authentication and caching FTP handlers
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(proxy_support, authinfo,
urllib.request.CacheFTPHandler)
# install it
urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
f = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.google.com/')
"""

For http and https use:
proxies = {'http':'http://proxy-source-ip:proxy-port',
'https':'https://proxy-source-ip:proxy-port'}
more proxies can be added similarly
proxies = {'http':'http://proxy1-source-ip:proxy-port',
'http':'http://proxy2-source-ip:proxy-port'
...
}
usage
filehandle = urllib.urlopen( external_url , proxies=proxies)
Don't use any proxies (in case of links within network)
filehandle = urllib.urlopen(external_url, proxies={})
Use proxies authentication via username and password
proxies = {'http':'http://username:password#proxy-source-ip:proxy-port',
'https':'https://username:password#proxy-source-ip:proxy-port'}
Note: avoid using special characters such as :,# in username and passwords

Problem with urllib

I wrote this code:
import urllib
proxies = {'http': 'http://112.65.135.54:8080/'}
opener = urllib.FancyURLopener(proxies)
r = opener.open("http://www.python.org/")
print r.read()
and when I execute it this program works fine, and send for me source code of python.org But when i use this:
import urllib
proxies = {'http': 'http://80.176.245.196:1080/'}
opener = urllib.FancyURLopener(proxies)
r = opener.open("http://www.python.org/")
print r.read()
this program does not send me the source code of python.org
What am I going to do?

hehe :d i find the answer i must use "socks" instead of "http" :
import urllib
proxies = {'socks': 'http://80.176.245.196:1080/'}
opener = urllib.FancyURLopener(proxies)
r = opener.open("http://www.python.org/")
print r.read()
this code works fine

Presumably, the first IP address and port points to a working proxy, while the second set does not (they're on private IPs so of course nobody else can check). So, speak with whoever handles your local network, and get the exact specs for IP and port of the HTTP proxy you're supposed to use!
Edit: aargh, the question had been edited to "mask" the IPs (now they're back and they're definitely not on private networks!) -- so the answer was based on that. Anyway, no need for digging now, as the OP has already discovered that one is a socks proxy, not an http proxy, and so of course can't be treated as the latter;-).

How can I apply authenticated proxy exceptions to an opener using urllib2?

When using urllib2 (and maybe urllib) on windows python seems to magically pick up the authenticated proxy setting applied to InternetExplorer. However, it doesn't seem to check and process the Advance setting "Exceptions" list.
Is there a way I can get it to process the exceptions list? Or, ignore the IE proxy setting and apply my own proxy opener to address this issue?
I played with creating a proxy opener before, but couldn't get it to work. Here's what I managed to dig out, but I still don't see how/where to apply any exceptions and I'm not even sure if this is right:
proxy_info = {
'host':'myproxy.com',
'user':Username,
'pass':Password,
'port':1080
}
http_str = "http://%(user)s:%(pass)s#%(host)s:%(port)d" % proxy_info
authInfo = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
authInfo.add_password()
proxy_dict = {'http':http_str}
proxyHandler = urllib2.ProxyHandler(proxy_dict)
# apply the handler to an opener
proxy_opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxyHandler, urllib2.HTTPHandler)
urllib2.install_opener(proxy_opener)

By default urllib2 gets the proxy settings from the environment variable, which is why it is using the IE settings. This is very handy, because you don't need to setup authentication yourself.
You can't apply exceptions like you want to, the easiest way to do this would be to have two openers and decide which one to use depending on whether the domain is in your exception list or not.
Use the default opener for when you want to use the proxy, and one without a proxy for when you don't need it:
>>> no_proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler({})
>>> opener = urllib2.build_opener(no_proxy)
>>> urllib2.install_opener(opener)
From here.
Edit:
Here's how I'd do it:
exclusion_list = ['http://www.google.com/', 'http://localhost/']
no_proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler({})
no_proxy_opener = urllib2.build_opener(no_proxy)
default_proxy_opener = urllib2.build_opener()
url = 'http://www.example.com/'
if url in exclusion_list:
opener = no_proxy_opener
else:
opener = default_proxy_opener
page = opener.open(url)
print page
Your biggest problem will be matching the url to the exclusion list, but that's a whole new question.

How to specify an authenticated proxy for a python http connection?

What's the best way to specify a proxy with username and password for an http connection in python?

This works for me:
import urllib2
proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': 'http://
username:password#proxyurl:proxyport'})
auth = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy, auth, urllib2.HTTPHandler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
conn = urllib2.urlopen('http://python.org')
return_str = conn.read()

Use this:
import requests
proxies = {"http":"http://username:password#proxy_ip:proxy_port"}
r = requests.get("http://www.example.com/", proxies=proxies)
print(r.content)
I think it's much simpler than using urllib. I don't understand why people love using urllib so much.

Setting an environment var named http_proxy like this: http://username:password#proxy_url:port

The best way of going through a proxy that requires authentication is using urllib2 to build a custom url opener, then using that to make all the requests you want to go through the proxy. Note in particular, you probably don't want to embed the proxy password in the url or the python source code (unless it's just a quick hack).
import urllib2
def get_proxy_opener(proxyurl, proxyuser, proxypass, proxyscheme="http"):
password_mgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
password_mgr.add_password(None, proxyurl, proxyuser, proxypass)
proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler({proxyscheme: proxyurl})
proxy_auth_handler = urllib2.ProxyBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)
return urllib2.build_opener(proxy_handler, proxy_auth_handler)
if __name__ == "__main__":
import sys
if len(sys.argv) > 4:
url_opener = get_proxy_opener(*sys.argv[1:4])
for url in sys.argv[4:]:
print url_opener.open(url).headers
else:
print "Usage:", sys.argv[0], "proxy user pass fetchurls..."
In a more complex program, you can seperate these components out as appropriate (for instance, only using one password manager for the lifetime of the application). The python documentation has more examples on how to do complex things with urllib2 that you might also find useful.

Or if you want to install it, so that it is always used with urllib2.urlopen (so you don't need to keep a reference to the opener around):
import urllib2
url = 'www.proxyurl.com'
username = 'user'
password = 'pass'
password_mgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
# None, with the "WithDefaultRealm" password manager means
# that the user/pass will be used for any realm (where
# there isn't a more specific match).
password_mgr.add_password(None, url, username, password)
auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_handler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
print urllib2.urlopen("http://www.example.com/folder/page.html").read()

Here is the method use urllib
import urllib.request
# set up authentication info
authinfo = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
proxy_support = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({"http" : "http://ahad-haam:3128"})
# build a new opener that adds authentication and caching FTP handlers
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(proxy_support, authinfo,
urllib.request.CacheFTPHandler)
# install it
urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
f = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.python.org/')
"""