Comment 4 for bug 1808720

The GET requests are triggered from python-django-auth-openid which it turns uses a urllib2-based fetcher inside of python-openid.

Our best bet is probably to find a way to set the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables globally for Django, possibly at the WSGI layer:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14284824/working-with-django-proxy-setup

Related bugs:

https://github.com/openid/python-openid/issues/83
https://bugs.python.org/issue24311