Folks, I just started to try and evaluate Gemini API and its embeddings feature. However it spins and I got error below. Google’d it and some mentioned to disable certificate verification in code, but I cannot find how to do it. Could you help give some ideas? E0426 11:17:11.212238000 8014060608 s…

Welcome @mli321 Are you using it on a machine with VPN?

Kind of. I use my company MacOS computer, which has Ivanti Security Access. Do I need to setup some proxy or else? However the quick test appears ok. curl -H ‘Content-Type: application/json’ -d ‘{“contents”:[{“parts”:[{“text”:“Write a story about a magic backpack”}]}]}’ -X POST ‘ https://gen…

Thanks a lot @sps for your response

I’d recommend checking if there are any specific proxy configurations required for Python scripts since your environment includes a security access tool.

I cannot find any specific proxy configurations required for Python scripts. environmental variables http_proxy, https_proxy, HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY are set properly. Any ways to configure generativeai Python library to do so? Thanks,

I’d look into client_options on the generativeai client configuration.

It gets resolved by setting ‘rest API’ instead of default SSL

thank you for your reply, please more details, :cry:,should i modify some codes in the ‘generativeai’ library？

thank you for your reply, i have fixed this by, genai.configure(api_key=GOOGLE_API_KEY,transport=‘rest’)

Gemini API Connection SSL error

Gemini API

user149 June 7, 2024, 5:50pm 8

excuse me, have you solved this problem?

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Gemini API Connection SSL error

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