bzrlib.transport.http (urllib).get buffers entire response

[Robert Collins]

This can cause MemoryErrors and generally impact performance by losing processing time while content traverses the network.

the guilty line is
> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/transport/http/__init__.py(132)get()
-> return StringIO(response_file.read())
(Pdb) list
127 # FIXME: some callers want an iterable... One step forward, three steps
128 # backwards :-/ And not only an iterable, but an iterable that can be
129 # seeked backwards, so we will never be able to do that. One such
130 # known client is bzrlib.bundle.serializer.v4.get_bundle_reader. At the
131 # time of this writing it's even the only known client -- vila20071203
132 -> return StringIO(response_file.read())

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

This already appears to have been fixed. No sign of StringIO to be found :)