diff --git a/benchmarks/backend_request_func.py b/benchmarks/backend_request_func.py
index f415d109bdfc8..c36214beedf2c 100644
--- a/benchmarks/backend_request_func.py
+++ b/benchmarks/backend_request_func.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ async def async_request_tgi(
     api_url = request_func_input.api_url
     assert api_url.endswith("generate_stream")
 
-    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=AIOHTTP_TIMEOUT) as session:
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(trust_env=True, timeout=AIOHTTP_TIMEOUT) as session:
         params = {
             "best_of": request_func_input.best_of,
             "max_new_tokens": request_func_input.output_len,
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ async def async_request_trt_llm(
     api_url = request_func_input.api_url
     assert api_url.endswith("generate_stream")
 
-    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=AIOHTTP_TIMEOUT) as session:
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(trust_env=True, timeout=AIOHTTP_TIMEOUT) as session:
         assert request_func_input.best_of == 1
         payload = {
             "accumulate_tokens": True,
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ async def async_request_deepspeed_mii(
     request_func_input: RequestFuncInput,
     pbar: Optional[tqdm] = None,
 ) -> RequestFuncOutput:
-    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=AIOHTTP_TIMEOUT) as session:
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(trust_env=True, timeout=AIOHTTP_TIMEOUT) as session:
         assert request_func_input.best_of == 1
 
         payload = {
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ async def async_request_openai_completions(
         ("completions", "profile")
     ), "OpenAI Completions API URL must end with 'completions' or 'profile'."
 
-    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=AIOHTTP_TIMEOUT) as session:
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(trust_env=True, timeout=AIOHTTP_TIMEOUT) as session:
         payload = {
             "model": request_func_input.model_name \
                 if request_func_input.model_name else request_func_input.model,
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ async def async_request_openai_chat_completions(
         "chat/completions"
     ), "OpenAI Chat Completions API URL must end with 'chat/completions'."
 
-    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=AIOHTTP_TIMEOUT) as session:
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(trust_env=True, timeout=AIOHTTP_TIMEOUT) as session:
         content = [{"type": "text", "text": request_func_input.prompt}]
         if request_func_input.multi_modal_content:
             content.append(request_func_input.multi_modal_content)