# Issue with https connection to influx
**URL:** https://community.influxdata.com/t/issue-with-https-connection-to-influx/8986
**Category:** InfluxDB 2
**Created:** [March 12, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/issue-with-https-connection-to-influx/8986 "2019-03-12T20:54:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@setheridge1](https://community.influxdata.com/u/setheridge1)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/issue-with-https-connection-to-influx/8986/1 "2019-03-12T20:54:55Z")
I have influxdb running in the influxdb official docker image. I have another container running Ubuntu just as a client. The Ubuntu container can happily ping the influxdb container. However if I try a curl command such as in the Get Started content I just get an empty response. I have installed the python influxdb client onto the Ubuntu box. I can instantiate a “client” but no matter what I try as “host=” in the connection string (ip address, host name per the docker network) any command I send via the client results in a 504 gateway error. I can create databases and query etc. from the client on the influxdb container.
Does anyone have any idea what stupid mistake I am making?
thanks,
Stephen
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### Author:  [@setheridge](https://community.influxdata.com/u/setheridge)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/issue-with-https-connection-to-influx/8986/2 "2019-03-13T12:17:41Z")
Further information. I am trying to mimic the getting started tutorial. I am running inside just one container now. I have entered
> Blockquote
> curl -i -XPOST [http://localhost:8086/query](http://localhost:8086/query) --data-urlencode “q=CREATE DATABASE mydb”
and received
> Blockquote
> curl: (52) Empty reply from server
The database was not created but I can create another database from the influx cli.
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### Author:  [@philb](https://community.influxdata.com/u/philb)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/issue-with-https-connection-to-influx/8986/3 "2019-03-13T14:36:17Z")
should the URL be https instead of http?
The response can happen when a http request is sent to https.
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### Author:  [@setheridge](https://community.influxdata.com/u/setheridge)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/issue-with-https-connection-to-influx/8986/4 "2019-03-13T15:11:12Z")
Thanks for the suggestion Phil. I have managed to sort it out though. The issue was that both containers had “http\_proxy” set and that was refusing connections etc. and stopping communications. UNSET cleared that and it worked as advertised!
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### Author:  [@philb](https://community.influxdata.com/u/philb)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/issue-with-https-connection-to-influx/8986/5 "2019-03-13T15:21:08Z")
Ah good, glad you sorted it. My docker knowledge is pretty much none existant so other than the URL i wouldn’t know where to begin with touble shooting docker containers.