Add compute engine metadata client (#11)

diff --git a/google/auth/_helpers.py b/google/auth/_helpers.py
index 0a62209..d4bf8f1 100644
--- a/google/auth/_helpers.py
+++ b/google/auth/_helpers.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import datetime
 
 import six
+from six.moves import urllib
 
 
 def utcnow():
@@ -88,3 +89,49 @@
     else:
         raise ValueError(
             '{0!r} could not be converted to unicode'.format(value))
+
+
+def update_query(url, params, remove=None):
+    """Updates a URL's query parameters.
+
+    Replaces any current values if they are already present in the URL.
+
+    Args:
+        url (str): The URL to update.
+        params (Mapping[str, str]): A mapping of query parameter
+            keys to values.
+        remove (Sequence[str]): Parameters to remove from the query string.
+
+    Returns:
+        str: The URL with updated query parameters.
+
+    Examples:
+
+        >>> url = 'http://example.com?a=1'
+        >>> update_query(url, {'a': '2'})
+        http://example.com?a=2
+        >>> update_query(url, {'b': '3'})
+        http://example.com?a=1&b=3
+        >> update_query(url, {'b': '3'}, remove=['a'])
+        http://example.com?b=3
+
+    """
+    if remove is None:
+        remove = []
+
+    # Split the URL into parts.
+    parts = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
+    # Parse the query string.
+    query_params = urllib.parse.parse_qs(parts.query)
+    # Update the query parameters with the new parameters.
+    query_params.update(params)
+    # Remove any values specified in remove.
+    query_params = {
+        key: value for key, value
+        in six.iteritems(query_params)
+        if key not in remove}
+    # Re-encoded the query string.
+    new_query = urllib.parse.urlencode(query_params, doseq=True)
+    # Unsplit the url.
+    new_parts = parts._replace(query=new_query)
+    return urllib.parse.urlunparse(new_parts)