Using the Requests python library in Google App Engine

Question

I\'m trying to use the awesome Requests library on Google App Engine. I found a patch for urllib3, which requests relies on, that is compatible with App Engine. https://gith

Answer 1

On Google Appengine (version 1.9.18) requests version 2.3.0 (only!) works IN PRODUCTION (but not on SDK) if you have billing enabled, which enables sockets support.

requests on the Appengine SDK fails with all https:// requests:

  ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', error(13, 'Permission denied'))

requests version 2.4.1 fails with:

  File "distlib/requests/adapters.py", line 407, in send
    raise ConnectionError(err, request=request)
  ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', error(13, 'Permission denied'))

requests version 2.5.1 fails with:

  File "distlib/requests/adapters.py", line 415, in send
    raise ConnectionError(err, request=request)
  ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', error(13, 'Permission denied'))

Info on sockets support: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/sockets/

PS: Replace awsome with very-painful if you intend to use requests on GAE.

See Also: Can Python Requests library be used on Google App Engine?