diff --git a/keystoneclient/httpclient.py b/keystoneclient/httpclient.py
index d9fe955d6..7c1af0661 100644
--- a/keystoneclient/httpclient.py
+++ b/keystoneclient/httpclient.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ OpenStack Client interface. Handles the REST calls and responses.
 import logging
 import pkg_resources
 
+import requests
 from six.moves.urllib import parse as urlparse
 
 try:
@@ -66,6 +67,22 @@ USER_AGENT = client_session.USER_AGENT
 request = client_session.request
 
 
+class _FakeRequestSession(object):
+    """This object is a temporary hack that should be removed later.
+
+    Keystoneclient has a cyclical dependency with its managers which is
+    preventing it from being cleaned up correctly. This is always bad but when
+    we switched to doing connection pooling this object wasn't getting cleaned
+    either and so we had left over TCP connections hanging around.
+
+    Until we can fix the client cleanup we rollback the use of a requests
+    session and do individual connections like we used to.
+    """
+
+    def request(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        return requests.request(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
 class HTTPClient(baseclient.Client, base.BaseAuthPlugin):
 
     version = None
@@ -238,6 +255,7 @@ class HTTPClient(baseclient.Client, base.BaseAuthPlugin):
         self._auth_token = None
 
         if not session:
+            kwargs['session'] = _FakeRequestSession()
             session = client_session.Session.construct(kwargs)
             session.auth = self
 
diff --git a/keystoneclient/session.py b/keystoneclient/session.py
index 26b95e1ee..a923a64f7 100644
--- a/keystoneclient/session.py
+++ b/keystoneclient/session.py
@@ -49,22 +49,6 @@ def request(url, method='GET', **kwargs):
     return Session().request(url, method=method, **kwargs)
 
 
-class _FakeRequestSession(object):
-    """This object is a temporary hack that should be removed later.
-
-    Keystoneclient has a cyclical dependency with its managers which is
-    preventing it from being cleaned up correctly. This is always bad but when
-    we switched to doing connection pooling this object wasn't getting cleaned
-    either and so we had left over TCP connections hanging around.
-
-    Until we can fix the client cleanup we rollback the use of a requests
-    session and do individual connections like we used to.
-    """
-
-    def request(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        return requests.request(*args, **kwargs)
-
-
 class Session(object):
 
     user_agent = None
@@ -113,7 +97,7 @@ class Session(object):
                                   for forever/never. (optional, default to 30)
         """
         if not session:
-            session = _FakeRequestSession()
+            session = requests.Session()
 
         self.auth = auth
         self.session = session