diff --git a/glanceclient/common/https.py b/glanceclient/common/https.py
index 51f8f6d8..649d14b7 100644
--- a/glanceclient/common/https.py
+++ b/glanceclient/common/https.py
@@ -158,7 +158,9 @@ class HTTPSAdapter(adapters.HTTPAdapter):
         # 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 encodeutils.safe_encode(url)
+        if six.PY2:
+            url = encodeutils.safe_encode(url)
+        return url
 
     def _create_glance_httpsconnectionpool(self, url):
         kw = self.poolmanager.connection_kw
diff --git a/tests/test_ssl.py b/tests/test_ssl.py
index cdfff5e1..907b7bfe 100644
--- a/tests/test_ssl.py
+++ b/tests/test_ssl.py
@@ -84,11 +84,6 @@ class TestHTTPSVerifyCert(testtools.TestCase):
         server_thread.daemon = True
         server_thread.start()
 
-    def _skip_python3(self):
-        if six.PY3:
-            msg = ("Skipping: python3 for now. Requires bugfix.")
-            self.skipTest(msg)
-
     def test_v1_requests_cert_verification(self):
         """v1 regression test for bug 115260."""
         port = self.port
@@ -108,7 +103,6 @@ class TestHTTPSVerifyCert(testtools.TestCase):
 
     def test_v1_requests_cert_verification_no_compression(self):
         """v1 regression test for bug 115260."""
-        self._skip_python3()
         port = self.port
         url = 'https://0.0.0.0:%d' % port
 
@@ -143,7 +137,6 @@ class TestHTTPSVerifyCert(testtools.TestCase):
 
     def test_v2_requests_cert_verification_no_compression(self):
         """v2 regression test for bug 115260."""
-        self._skip_python3()
         port = self.port
         url = 'https://0.0.0.0:%d' % port