When I call for the Google Earth Engine (GEE) Python APIs through Google AppEngine, it throws out a HTTPException which says \"HTTPException: invalid and/or missing SSL cert
I am also experiencing the same issue in my python script with App Engine. It was running fine a few days ago and the certificate for accounts.google.com is valid until March, 9th 2017
File "/Users/QQQ/Documents/Developpements/ae-python-project/app/user_spreadsheet_auth.py", line 55, in _get_service
service = build('sheets', 'v4', http=http_auth)
File "/Users/QQQ/Documents/Developpements/ae-python-project/libs/oauth2client/_helpers.py", line 133, in positional_wrapper
return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/QQQ/Documents/Developpements/ae-python-project/libs/googleapiclient/discovery.py", line 222, in build
cache)
File "/Users/QQQ/Documents/Developpements/ae-python-project/libs/googleapiclient/discovery.py", line 269, in _retrieve_discovery_doc
resp, content = http.request(actual_url)
File "/Users/QQQ/Documents/Developpements/ae-python-project/libs/oauth2client/transport.py", line 159, in new_request
credentials._refresh(orig_request_method)
File "/Users/QQQ/Documents/Developpements/ae-python-project/libs/oauth2client/client.py", line 744, in _refresh
self._do_refresh_request(http)
File "/Users/QQQ/Documents/Developpements/ae-python-project/libs/oauth2client/client.py", line 775, in _do_refresh_request
body=body, headers=headers)
File "/Users/QQQ/Documents/Developpements/ae-python-project/libs/oauth2client/transport.py", line 282, in request
connection_type=connection_type)
File "/Users/QQQ/Documents/Developpements/ae-python-project/libs/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1609, in request
(response, content) = self._request(conn, authority, uri, request_uri, method, body, headers, redirections, cachekey)
File "/Users/QQQ/Documents/Developpements/ae-python-project/libs/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1351, in _request
(response, content) = self._conn_request(conn, request_uri, method, body, headers)
File "/Users/QQQ/Documents/Developpements/ae-python-project/libs/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1307, in _conn_request
response = conn.getresponse()
File "/Users/QQQ/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/google/appengine/dist27/gae_override/httplib.py", line 532, in getresponse
raise HTTPException(str(e))
HTTPException: Invalid and/or missing SSL certificate for URL: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token
Edit: it looks like the issue has been reported here a few hours ago : https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=13477
For Windows, because the SDK is stored in an Admin Read-only area, I used Windows File Explorer in two steps instead of a script.
First download https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem to a folder, e.g. Downloads.
curl https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem > urlfetch_cacerts.txt
You can also use a browser to download the file and rename it.
Check where your cacerts are stored. I found them in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\google_appengine\lib\cacerts
Others report it in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\platform\google_appengine\lib\cacerts\urlfetch_cacerts.txt
With Admin credentials, rename the file urlfetch_cacerts.txt to something else.
Then copy the downloaded file cacerts.pem to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\google_appengine\lib\cacerts
And rename it to urlfetch_cacerts.txt
Voila!
On the tracker for this GAE issue, the maintainers give a workaround:
As a temporary workaround, you can replace the expired urlfetch_cacerts.txt with https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem
On linux you can use the following command: wget https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem -O {Root of Python SDK}/lib/cacerts/urlfetch_cacerts.txt