~/S/python-glanceclient git:tags/0.14.0^0 ❯❯❯ python
Python 2.7.8 (default, Aug 24 2014, 21:26:19)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.1 (clang-503.0.40)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from glanceclient.common.http import HTTPClient
>>> s = HTTPClient('', ssl_compression=False).session
>>> s.get('https://httpbin.org/get')
<Response [200]>
>>> import pkg_resources
>>> pkg_resources.get_distribution('requests').version
'2.4.1'