Question

I’m writing a Google AppEngine python application that needs to connect to Google for authentication. I must have changed something which I’ve spent the last 5 days trying to figure out: this application previously would run (and perform said authentication) while deployed on localhost but fails to do so now. Once I deploy to appengine however, this error ceases to exist. I have established that it isn’t an internet connection issue as I’ve deployed it on another computer and it still gives me the same error.

Here’s what the stack trace is like

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\ext\webapp\_webapp25.py", line 701, in __call__
    handler.get(*groups)
  File "C:\Users\username\Desktop\AppEngine Things\engineapp\main.py", line 372, in get
    creds = self.GetCodeCredentials()
  File "C:\Users\username\Desktop\AppEngine Things\engineapp\main.py", line 323, in GetCodeCredentials
    creds = oauth_flow.step2_exchange(code)
  File "lib\oauth2client\client.py", line 883, in step2_exchange
    headers=headers)
  File "lib\httplib2\__init__.py", line 1445, in request
    (response, content) = self._request(conn, authority, uri, request_uri, method, body, headers, redirections, cachekey)
  File "lib\httplib2\__init__.py", line 1197, in _request
    (response, content) = self._conn_request(conn, request_uri, method, body, headers)
  File "lib\httplib2\__init__.py", line 1167, in _conn_request
    response = conn.getresponse()
  File "lib\httplib2\__init__.py", line 999, in getresponse
    raise httplib.HTTPException()
HTTPException

Answer 1

Running the app via dev_appserver.py on the command line seemed to solve the problem. I really don’t have much insight into why that is so though. So now I can’t use the GUI launcher for the sdk