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### HTTP client option: httpx2

By default, the SDK uses `httpx` for its HTTP transport. You can opt in to
[`httpx2`](https://github.com/pydantic/httpx2) by installing `google-genai[httpx2]`
and setting the `GOOGLE_GENAI_HTTP_CLIENT` environment variable:

```bash
export GOOGLE_GENAI_HTTP_CLIENT=httpx2
```

Alternatively, you can directly inject an `httpx2.Client` or `httpx2.AsyncClient`
via `HttpOptions`:

```python
import httpx2
from google import genai
from google.genai import types

client = genai.Client(
http_options=types.HttpOptions(
httpx_client=httpx2.Client(),
httpx_async_client=httpx2.AsyncClient(),
)
)
```

### Faster async client option: Aiohttp

By default we use httpx for both sync and async client implementations. In order
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client=Client(..., http_options=http_options)
```


### Proxy

Both httpx and aiohttp libraries use `urllib.request.getproxies` from
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