There's a difference in the way the Cloud SDK and the API client library handle HTTP connections. Cloud SDK uses urllib3 and the API client library uses httplib2.
This causes one issue with the way custom SSL certificates are handled in both. Using httplib2 this is quite painful to set up. An option is to use a third party lib [1] but this is not always possible in secure environments (which are the environments that likely need the custom SSL cert)
When using both libraries, this complicates using a custom CERT authority. It would be great if both used the same way, possibly by integrating the the referenced third party library, or by switching httplib2 to urllib3
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This causes one issue with the way custom SSL certificates are handled in both. Using httplib2 this is quite painful to set up. An option is to use a third party lib [1] but this is not always possible in secure environments (which are the environments that likely need the custom SSL cert)
When using both libraries, this complicates using a custom CERT authority. It would be great if both used the same way, possibly by integrating the the referenced third party library, or by switching httplib2 to urllib3