diff -Nur httplib2-0.9.orig/python2/httplib2/__init__.py httplib2-0.9/python2/httplib2/__init__.py
--- httplib2-0.9.orig/python2/httplib2/__init__.py	2015-04-03 12:56:04.834370332 -0600
+++ httplib2-0.9/python2/httplib2/__init__.py	2015-04-03 12:58:16.441925454 -0600
@@ -838,7 +838,11 @@
     else:
         port = dict(https=443, http=80)[method]
 
-    proxy_type = 3 # socks.PROXY_TYPE_HTTP
+    if method == 'http':
+       proxy_type = 4 # socks.PROXY_TYPE_HTTP_NO_TUNNEL
+    else:
+       proxy_type = 3 # socks.PROXY_TYPE_HTTP
+
     return ProxyInfo(
         proxy_type = proxy_type,
         proxy_host = host,