pd.read_parquet("gs://...") fails with CURL error 56 when HTTPS_PROXY is set, pyarrow 23 C++ GCS client ignores NO_PROXY

[dipk-mish7]

We recently upgraded from pyarrow=12 to pyarrow=23 and started seeing this error when reading parquet files from GCS in environments where HTTPS_PROXY is set:

OSError: google::cloud::Status(UNAVAILABLE: Retry policy exhausted ...
PerformWork() - CURL error [56]=Failure when receiving data from the peer)

After investigating, we found that setting empty storage option was letting me read the file

df = pd.read_parquet("gs://bucket/file.parquet", storage_options={})

Questions:

1. Is this a known limitation of the C++ GCS client that it ignores NO_PROXY?
2. Is there any way to make pd.read_parquet("gs://...") honour NO_PROXY without requiring a code change (e.g. an env var or config option)?
3. Should storage_options={} be considered the recommended pattern going forward on pyarrow 13+?