This is establishing the API for a future optimization. We want to
be able to offer true socket-level caching, but can't do that with
httplib2 right now. For now, we will just fake the optimization
by returning an iterator over the image body, which happens to already
be fully loaded into a string.
Change-Id: I2d36e3cdd45b26d7c7c27ba050bf6a4b5765df6c