=== modified file 'launchpadbugs/http_connection.py'
--- launchpadbugs/http_connection.py	2008-03-11 20:17:57 +0000
+++ launchpadbugs/http_connection.py	2008-06-13 08:44:01 +0000
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import multipartpost_handler
 import utils
 import cookielib
+import cStringIO as StringIO
 import bughelper_error as Error
 from tempfile import mkstemp
 try:
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@
         self.__attempts = attempts
         self.content_types = content_types
         self.__baseurl = None
+        self.__progress_hook = None        
         
     def get_auth(self):
         return self.__cookie_handler
@@ -155,9 +157,24 @@
                     raise Error.LPUrlError("login failed", url)
                 for ct in self.content_types:
                     if contenttype.startswith(ct):
-                        text = sock.read()
-                        geturl = sock.geturl()
-                        sock.close()
+                        if self.__progress_hook is None:
+                            text = sock.read()
+                            geturl = sock.geturl()
+                            sock.close()
+                        else:
+                            tmp_text = StringIO.StringIO()
+                            i = 0
+                            counter = 0
+                            size = int(sock.info()['Content-Length'])
+                            while i < size:
+                                tmp_text.write(sock.read(self.__block_size))
+                                i += self.__block_size
+                                counter += 1
+                                self.__progress_hook(counter, self.__block_size, size)
+                            text = tmp_text.getvalue()
+                            geturl = sock.geturl()
+                            sock.close()
+                            tmp_text.close()
                         return _result(contenttype=contenttype,text=text, url=geturl)
                 sock.close()
                 raise IOError, "unsupported contenttype (%s)" %contenttype
@@ -169,4 +186,21 @@
                 count += 1
 
         raise Error.LPUrlError(error, url)
-
+        
+    def set_progress_hook(self, hook_func, blocksize=4096):
+        assert blocksize, "blocksize needs to be an integer greater than 0"
+        self.__block_size = blocksize
+        assert callable(hook_func), "hook_func needs to be callable with three arguments"
+        self.__progress_hook = hook_func
+        
+        
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    c = HTTPConnection()
+    
+    def example_hook(counter, block_size, size):
+        print (counter, block_size, size)
+        
+    c.set_progress_hook(example_hook)
+    x = c.get("https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/200500/")
+    print x.text
+