René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Enable / document BYO HTTP Objects","articleBody":"Was recently pointed out in https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python/issues/903#issue-83467800 that `httplib2.Http` objects are not threadsafe.\n\n@mwitkow-io suggested that using [`urllib3`](https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) connection pooling would be useful to them.\n\nOther users may also want to use [Twisted](https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/) for their transport layer (instead of `httplib2`).\n\n---\n\nCurrently (as of 9491053699708cef29cdbefeba65572e8481f067) this is possible in `datastore` because `Connection` takes a standalone `http` object (of any type the user pleases) and the [only place](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python/blob/3e86aaed3c7e192a17d9b790f90a41cc2b7baa6a/gcloud/datastore/connection.py#L84-L86) the `http` object is used has a very clear signature\n\n``` python\nheaders, content = self.http.request(uri=..., method=..., headers=..., body=...)\n```\n\n---\n\nRelated to https://github.com/google/oauth2client/issues/128\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dhermes","@type":"Person","name":"dhermes"},"datePublished":"2015-06-05T17:57:15.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/908/google-cloud-python/issues/908"}