I got the same issue. It was fixed if I remove the httplib2 in $SPLUNK_HOME/lib/python2.7/site-packages and replaced it with httplib2 Version 0.9.2 (downloaded and extracted) ` $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk cmd python print httplib2.version 0.9.2` So I can go across proxies also with user and pass.... ... View more