I noticed this morning that using the remote_api in the most recent SDK generates 401 responses when connecting to localhost.
I have been using this same connection method for years now.
python remote_api_shell.py -s localhost:8080
This now generates many 401 responses in the server console and then aborts the connection. By 401 responses I mean that when trying to connect to the locally running server, the remote_api_shell hits /_ah/remote_api with a GET request. This GET requests returns an http 401 response.
My environment is Python 2.7 using SDK 1.9.27.
I can connect to remote app engine instances just fine, it is only the connection to localhost that exhibits this behavior.
Has something changed? Do we need to do something differently?