---
id: google-auth-httplib2
version: "0.4.1"
license: Apache 2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# google-auth-httplib2 — Google Authentication Library: httplib2 transport

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install google-auth-httplib2
uv add google-auth-httplib2
poetry add google-auth-httplib2

## Description

``httplib2`` Transport for Google Auth
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.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/status-deprecated-red.svg
    :target: https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2

The library was created to help clients migrate from `oauth2client <https://github.com/googleapis/oauth2client>`_ to `google-auth`_, however this library is no longer maintained. For any new usages please see provided transport layers by `google-auth`_ library.


Documentation
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`httplib2 Transport for Google Auth Documentation`_


Introduction
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|pypi|

This library provides an `httplib2`_ transport for `google-auth`_.

.. note:: ``httplib`` has lots of problems such as lack of threadsafety
    and insecure usage of TLS. Using it is highly discouraged. This
    library is intended to help existing users of ``oauth2client`` migrate to
    ``google-auth``.

.. |pypi| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/google-auth-httplib2.svg
   :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/google-auth-httplib2

.. _httplib2: https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2
.. _httplib2 Transport for Google Auth Documentation: https://googleapis.dev/python/google-auth-httplib2/latest
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## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Provides an httplib2 transport adapter for google-auth, enabling authentication workflows with the deprecated httplib2 HTTP client library.

Verdict: This package provides a working migration path from oauth2client to google-auth for existing httplib2 users, but is explicitly deprecated. The underlying httplib2 library has documented security and design flaws. Install only if maintaining legacy code; new projects should use google-auth's built-in transport layers instead.

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