Fix #529: Don't keep reference to tornado.httpclient.AsyncHTTPClient #530
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By keeping a reference to AsyncHTTPClient in self._client it causes sockets opened by the client to never be freed. Eventually, we run out of file descriptors. Writing the code this way w/o self._client prevents that from happening. This is a stop gap until we can fix the underlying bug.