GAE_USE_SOCKETS_HTTPLIB interferes with Google Api Python Client

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GAE_USE_SOCKETS_HTTPLIB interferes with Google Api Python Client

[giuseppecrj]

Removing the environment variable did the trick for both development and production. Thank you so much for your help and the detailed explanation @hiranya911

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[hiranya911]

According to the issue you've linked, the solution is to enable billing for the project (which is required anyway when using sockets). Have you enabled billing?

[giuseppecrj]

Yes, I did enable up billing.

I set up a very minimal proof of error in this repository: https://github.com/giusepperj/firebase_youtube

[hiranya911]

Thanks for the repro. After trying several workarounds it doesn't look like we can do anything in the Admin SDK end to alleviate this problem. I even tried calling the Youtube API client via the google-auth-library-python-httplib2 library, and got the same error.

As far as I can see, the call to Realtime Database works both with and without the environment variable. Therefore I think your options are:

1. Test the app without the environment variable. I can confirm that the database call works in the dev server without it. Chances are it will work in the prod environment as well. You might see a warning, but you can ignore it.

~/firebase_youtube/lib/urllib3/contrib/appengine.py:115: AppEnginePlatformWarning: urllib3 is using URLFetch on Google App Engine sandbox instead of sockets. To use sockets directly instead of URLFetch see https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/urllib3.contrib.html.
  AppEnginePlatformWarning)
WARNING  2017-11-11 00:04:20,419 urlfetch_stub.py:551] Stripped prohibited headers from URLFetch request: ['Content-Length']
 {u'h': {u'j': u'j47', u'k': u'k47', u'i': u'i47'}, u'bar': 1510341120447}

2. If the app doesn't work in the prod environment without the environment variable, you should file a bug against the Google API client. Socket API is an officially supported feature of App Engine, and the library should support it (although I fear it doesn't work because the socket API is blocking the Google IP range).

[hiranya911]

Thanks @giusepperj. I will update our documentation, so that step is no longer mentioned as required.