diff --git a/glanceclient/common/http.py b/glanceclient/common/http.py
index fa46d155..0d70f6a6 100644
--- a/glanceclient/common/http.py
+++ b/glanceclient/common/http.py
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ class HTTPClient(object):
             compression = kwargs.get('ssl_compression', True)
 
             if not compression:
-                self.session.mount("https://", https.HTTPSAdapter())
+                self.session.mount("glance+https://", https.HTTPSAdapter())
+                self.endpoint = 'glance+' + self.endpoint
 
                 self.session.verify = (kwargs.get('cacert', None),
                                        kwargs.get('insecure', False))
diff --git a/glanceclient/common/https.py b/glanceclient/common/https.py
index 4f0e6f5f..6baa6afb 100644
--- a/glanceclient/common/https.py
+++ b/glanceclient/common/https.py
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ except ImportError:
 
 
 from glanceclient import exc
+from glanceclient.openstack.common import strutils
 
 
 def to_bytes(s):
@@ -72,9 +73,16 @@ class HTTPSAdapter(adapters.HTTPAdapter):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         # NOTE(flaper87): This line forces poolmanager to use
         # glanceclient HTTPSConnection
-        poolmanager.pool_classes_by_scheme["https"] = HTTPSConnectionPool
+        classes_by_scheme = poolmanager.pool_classes_by_scheme
+        classes_by_scheme["glance+https"] = HTTPSConnectionPool
         super(HTTPSAdapter, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
+    def request_url(self, request, proxies):
+        # NOTE(flaper87): Make sure the url is encoded, otherwise
+        # python's standard httplib will fail with a TypeError.
+        url = super(HTTPSAdapter, self).request_url(request, proxies)
+        return strutils.safe_encode(url)
+
     def cert_verify(self, conn, url, verify, cert):
         super(HTTPSAdapter, self).cert_verify(conn, url, verify, cert)
         conn.ca_certs = verify[0]
@@ -93,7 +101,7 @@ class HTTPSConnectionPool(connectionpool.HTTPSConnectionPool):
     be used just when the user sets --no-ssl-compression.
     """
 
-    scheme = 'https'
+    scheme = 'glance+https'
 
     def _new_conn(self):
         self.num_connections += 1
@@ -150,6 +158,10 @@ class VerifiedHTTPSConnection(HTTPSConnection):
             self.cert_file = cert_file
             self.timeout = timeout
             self.insecure = insecure
+            # NOTE(flaper87): `is_verified` is needed for
+            # requests' urllib3. If insecure is True then
+            # the request is not `verified`, hence `not insecure`
+            self.is_verified = not insecure
             self.ssl_compression = ssl_compression
             self.cacert = None if cacert is None else str(cacert)
             self.set_context()
diff --git a/tests/test_ssl.py b/tests/test_ssl.py
index ecbccfa6..013d18fb 100644
--- a/tests/test_ssl.py
+++ b/tests/test_ssl.py
@@ -39,12 +39,22 @@ class TestRequestsIntegration(testtools.TestCase):
         adapter = client.session.adapters.get("https://")
         self.assertFalse(isinstance(adapter, https.HTTPSAdapter))
 
+        adapter = client.session.adapters.get("glance+https://")
+        self.assertFalse(isinstance(adapter, https.HTTPSAdapter))
+
+    def test_custom_https_adapter(self):
         client = http.HTTPClient("https://localhost",
                                  ssl_compression=False)
+        self.assertNotEqual(https.HTTPSConnectionPool,
+                            poolmanager.pool_classes_by_scheme["https"])
+
         self.assertEqual(https.HTTPSConnectionPool,
-                         poolmanager.pool_classes_by_scheme["https"])
+                         poolmanager.pool_classes_by_scheme["glance+https"])
 
         adapter = client.session.adapters.get("https://")
+        self.assertFalse(isinstance(adapter, https.HTTPSAdapter))
+
+        adapter = client.session.adapters.get("glance+https://")
         self.assertTrue(isinstance(adapter, https.HTTPSAdapter))