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On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 11:39 -0400, Jay Pipes wrote:
> On 06/26/2013 12:55 PM, Adam Young wrote:
> > Glance:
> > - Uses httplib for communication
> > - Uses keystoneclient within cli
> > - Checks that socket is patched before importing eventlet for httplib.
> 
> For the record, Glance uses httplib, not httplib2, for its 
> request/response handling because httplib2 does not support 
> chunked-transfer encoding. This is the same reason that Swift's client 
> and server communication uses the httplib library over httplib2 -- it's 
> kind of important when you have multi-GB file transfers ;)
> 
> I note that the requests library supports chunked transfer:
> 
> http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced.html#chunk-encoded-requests
> 
> Might be time for the Glance developers to consider switching out 
> httplib for requests?
> 
> I noticed that the original email did not include Swift. Is there a 
> reason for not including it?

Nope, complete oversight: 

Swift: 
- Uses keystoneclient within swiftclient library
- Uses httplib
- Uses eventlet for https connections if socket is patched.

> All the best,
> -jay
> 
> 
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