[MERGE] [Bug 215426] Re: MemoryError - recv for HTTP through Proxy

[Andrew Bennetts]

Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> Eric Holmberg wrote:
> > Work-around patch for cause of MemoryError on HTTP download under Windows is attached. 
> 
> bb:tweak
> 
> Comments inline.

Another comment: there's a couple of other self._file.read calls in this class,
including one in the same method.  Probably this logic should be extracted
into a method or function that is used everywhere we currently use
self._file.read directly.

-Andrew.