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On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 10:06 -0600, Dean Troyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Jesse Noller
> <jesse.noller at rackspace.com> wrote:
>         On Jan 16, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Justin Hammond
>         <justin.hammond at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:
>         > I'm not sure if it was said, but which httplib using being
>         > used (urllib3
>         > maybe?). Also I noticed many people were talking about
>         > supporting auth
>         > properly, but are there any intentions to properly support
>         > 'noauth'
>         > (python-neutronclient, for instance, doesn't support it
>         > properly as of
>         > this writing)? 
>         > 
>         Can you detail out noauth for me; and I would say the defacto
>         httplib in python today is python-requests - urllib3 is also
>         good but I would say from a *consumer* standpoint requests
>         offers more in terms of usability / extensibility 
> 
> 
> requests is built on top of urllib3 so there's that...
> 
> 
> The biggest reaon I favor using Jamie Lennox's new session layer stuff
> in keystoneclient is that it better reflects the requests API instead
> of it being stuffed in after the fact.  And as the one responsible for
> that stuffing, it was pretty blunt and really needs to be cleaned up
> more than Alessio did.
> 
> 
> only a few libs (maybe just glance and swift?) don't use requests at
> this point and I think the resistance there is the chunked transfers
> they both do.

Right, but requests supports chunked-transfer encoding properly, so
really there's no reason those clients could not move to a
requests-based codebase.

Best,
-jay

> 
> I'm really curious what 'noauth' means against APIs that have few, if
> any, calls that operate without a valid token.
> 
> 
> dt
> 
> 
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> 
> Dean Troyer
> dtroyer at gmail.com
> 
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