From 517e2a581d426f9f04b9ae65c1b93f47b4af42fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesse Mansfield <mansfield.jesse@abc.net.au>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:44:51 +1100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Adds download support to download / download_with_retries

---
 dbt_common/clients/system.py | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dbt_common/clients/system.py b/dbt_common/clients/system.py
index cd38ba10..c692b072 100644
--- a/dbt_common/clients/system.py
+++ b/dbt_common/clients/system.py
@@ -581,9 +581,12 @@ def run_cmd(cwd: str, cmd: List[str], env: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None) -> T
 
 
 def download_with_retries(
-    url: str, path: str, timeout: Optional[Union[float, tuple]] = None
+    url: str,
+    path: str,
+    timeout: Optional[Union[float, tuple]] = None,
+    proxies: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
 ) -> None:
-    download_fn = functools.partial(download, url, path, timeout)
+    download_fn = functools.partial(download, url, path, timeout, proxies)
     connection_exception_retry(download_fn, 5)
 
 
@@ -591,10 +594,11 @@ def download(
     url: str,
     path: str,
     timeout: Optional[Union[float, Tuple[float, float], Tuple[float, None]]] = None,
+    proxies: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
 ) -> None:
     path = convert_path(path)
     connection_timeout = timeout or float(os.getenv("DBT_HTTP_TIMEOUT", 10))
-    response = requests.get(url, timeout=connection_timeout)
+    response = requests.get(url, timeout=connection_timeout, proxies=proxies)
     with open(path, "wb") as handle:
         for block in response.iter_content(1024 * 64):
             handle.write(block)

From edfc8366fb1560f701861500fcdc674a7d505aad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesse Mansfield <mansfield.jesse@abc.net.au>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:49:43 +1100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] changie file

---
 .changes/unreleased/Features-20260210-094912.yaml | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .changes/unreleased/Features-20260210-094912.yaml

diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Features-20260210-094912.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Features-20260210-094912.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..59a89ce1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Features-20260210-094912.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+kind: Features
+body: adds proxies to download function, necessary for running DBT without setting global proxy vars
+time: 2026-02-10T09:49:12.7780767+11:00
+custom:
+    Author: mansfieldj3
+    Issue: "348"