diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-cdk-command.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-cdk-command.yml
index ee12e965cb3c..7e9b33f3318b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-cdk-command.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-cdk-command.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout Airbyte
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - name: Build CDK Package
-        run: ./gradlew --no-daemon :airbyte-cdk:python:build
+        run: ./gradlew --no-daemon --no-build-cache :airbyte-cdk:python:build
       - name: Add Failure Comment
         if: github.event.inputs.comment-id && !success()
         uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@v1
diff --git a/airbyte-cdk/python/CHANGELOG.md b/airbyte-cdk/python/CHANGELOG.md
index a8f04ed36fcb..fda59b2cd649 100644
--- a/airbyte-cdk/python/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/airbyte-cdk/python/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.1.5
+Allow specifying keyword arguments to be sent on a request made by an HTTP stream: https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/pull/4493
+
 ## 0.1.4
 Allow to use Python 3.7.0: https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/pull/3566
 
diff --git a/airbyte-cdk/python/airbyte_cdk/sources/streams/http/http.py b/airbyte-cdk/python/airbyte_cdk/sources/streams/http/http.py
index e248a9fe262d..60aaa95e153f 100644
--- a/airbyte-cdk/python/airbyte_cdk/sources/streams/http/http.py
+++ b/airbyte-cdk/python/airbyte_cdk/sources/streams/http/http.py
@@ -118,6 +118,19 @@ def request_body_json(
         """
         return None
 
+    def request_kwargs(
+        self,
+        stream_state: Mapping[str, Any],
+        stream_slice: Mapping[str, Any] = None,
+        next_page_token: Mapping[str, Any] = None,
+    ) -> Mapping[str, Any]:
+        """
+        Override to return a mapping of keyword arguments to be used when creating the HTTP request.
+        Any option listed in https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/api/#requests.adapters.BaseAdapter.send for can be returned from
+        this method. Note that these options do not conflict with request-level options such as headers, request params, etc..
+        """
+        return {}
+
     @abstractmethod
     def parse_response(
         self,
@@ -166,13 +179,13 @@ def _create_prepared_request(
             # TODO support non-json bodies
             args["json"] = json
 
-        return requests.Request(**args).prepare()
+        return self._session.prepare_request(requests.Request(**args))
 
     # TODO allow configuring these parameters. If we can get this into the requests library, then we can do it without the ugly exception hacks
     #  see https://github.com/litl/backoff/pull/122
     @default_backoff_handler(max_tries=5, factor=5)
     @user_defined_backoff_handler(max_tries=5)
-    def _send_request(self, request: requests.PreparedRequest) -> requests.Response:
+    def _send_request(self, request: requests.PreparedRequest, request_kwargs: Mapping[str, Any]) -> requests.Response:
         """
         Wraps sending the request in rate limit and error handlers.
 
@@ -190,9 +203,8 @@ def _send_request(self, request: requests.PreparedRequest) -> requests.Response:
         Unexpected transient exceptions use the default backoff parameters.
         Unexpected persistent exceptions are not handled and will cause the sync to fail.
         """
-        response: requests.Response = self._session.send(request)
+        response: requests.Response = self._session.send(request, **request_kwargs)
         if self.should_retry(response):
-
             custom_backoff_time = self.backoff_time(response)
             if custom_backoff_time:
                 raise UserDefinedBackoffException(backoff=custom_backoff_time, request=request, response=response)
@@ -224,8 +236,8 @@ def read_records(
                 params=self.request_params(stream_state=stream_state, stream_slice=stream_slice, next_page_token=next_page_token),
                 json=self.request_body_json(stream_state=stream_state, stream_slice=stream_slice, next_page_token=next_page_token),
             )
-
-            response = self._send_request(request)
+            request_kwargs = self.request_kwargs(stream_state=stream_state, stream_slice=stream_slice, next_page_token=next_page_token)
+            response = self._send_request(request, request_kwargs)
             yield from self.parse_response(response, stream_state=stream_state, stream_slice=stream_slice)
 
             next_page_token = self.next_page_token(response)
diff --git a/airbyte-cdk/python/docs/concepts/http-streams.md b/airbyte-cdk/python/docs/concepts/http-streams.md
index 9d15c2f72e1f..12fda0eca2cb 100644
--- a/airbyte-cdk/python/docs/concepts/http-streams.md
+++ b/airbyte-cdk/python/docs/concepts/http-streams.md
@@ -71,3 +71,8 @@ errors. It is not currently possible to specify a rate limit Airbyte should adhe
 ### Stream Slicing
 
 When implementing [stream slicing](incremental-stream.md#streamstream_slices) in an `HTTPStream` each Slice is equivalent to a HTTP request; the stream will make one request per element returned by the `stream_slices` function. The current slice being read is passed into every other method in `HttpStream` e.g: `request_params`, `request_headers`, `path`, etc.. to be injected into a request. This allows you to dynamically determine the output of the `request_params`, `path`, and other functions to read the input slice and return the appropriate value. 
+
+### Network Adapter Keyword arguments
+If you need to set any network-adapter keyword args on the outgoing HTTP requests such as `allow_redirects`, `stream`, `verify`, `cert`, etc..
+override the `request_kwargs` method. Any option listed in [BaseAdapter.send](https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/api/#requests.adapters.BaseAdapter.send) can 
+be returned as a keyword argument. 
diff --git a/airbyte-cdk/python/setup.py b/airbyte-cdk/python/setup.py
index b45170db9095..3f193b944ad7 100644
--- a/airbyte-cdk/python/setup.py
+++ b/airbyte-cdk/python/setup.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="airbyte-cdk",
-    version="0.1.4",
+    version="0.1.5",
     description="A framework for writing Airbyte Connectors.",
     long_description=README,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
@@ -73,14 +73,7 @@
         "requests",
     ],
     python_requires=">=3.7.0",
-    extras_require={
-        "dev": [
-            "MyPy==0.812",
-            "pytest",
-            "pytest-cov",
-            "pytest-mock",
-        ]
-    },
+    extras_require={"dev": ["MyPy==0.812", "pytest", "pytest-cov", "pytest-mock", "requests-mock"]},
     entry_points={
         "console_scripts": ["base-python=base_python.entrypoint:main"],
     },
diff --git a/airbyte-cdk/python/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http.py b/airbyte-cdk/python/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http.py
index d70fa2b0d560..997157c2da08 100644
--- a/airbyte-cdk/python/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http.py
+++ b/airbyte-cdk/python/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 
 
 from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping, Optional
+from unittest.mock import ANY
 
 import pytest
 import requests
@@ -60,6 +61,18 @@ def parse_response(
         yield stubResp
 
 
+def test_request_kwargs_used(mocker, requests_mock):
+    stream = StubBasicReadHttpStream()
+    request_kwargs = {"cert": None, "proxies": "google.com"}
+    mocker.patch.object(stream, "request_kwargs", return_value=request_kwargs)
+    mocker.patch.object(stream._session, "send", wraps=stream._session.send)
+    requests_mock.register_uri("GET", stream.url_base)
+
+    list(stream.read_records(sync_mode=SyncMode.full_refresh))
+
+    stream._session.send.assert_any_call(ANY, **request_kwargs)
+
+
 def test_stub_basic_read_http_stream_read_records(mocker):
     stream = StubBasicReadHttpStream()
     blank_response = {}  # Send a blank response is fine as we ignore the response in `parse_response anyway.