I fixed the issue for my slack alerts by adding the lines below in slack.py (splunk\etc\apps\slack_alerts\bin\slack.py)
import os
proxy = 'http://:@:'
os.environ['http_proxy'] = proxy
os.environ['HTTP_PROXY'] = proxy
os.environ['https_proxy'] = proxy
os.environ['HTTPS_PROXY'] = proxy
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