python requests on Google App Engine not working for HTTPS

Question

I\'m using python-request on Google App Engine and it\'s not working as expected for HTTPS. Let\'s see an example:

import requests
requests.get(\'https://www         


        

Answer 1

Downgrading to requests==2.1.0 worked for me.

Having an up-to-date urllib3 is important for resolving an unrelated bug (import pwd, as I recall).

Hopefully App Engine fixes this soon, as requests won't.

EDIT:

I think you can also patch this in the latest requests by commenting lines 161-175 in sessions.py. Untested.

Answer 2

There is now a better solution than changing your requests version. As suggested in the official docs you can monkey patch requests to play nicely with Google App Engine.

First install requests-toolbelt:

pip install -t lib requests-toolbelt

Then in your main.py file (or equivalent):

import requests_toolbelt.adapters.appengine

requests_toolbelt.adapters.appengine.monkeypatch()