Merge pull request #456 from basho/fixes/lrb/httplib-buffering-gh-277

Use buffering for retrieval of HTTP headers

Author: lukebakken

README.md

@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ Contributors
 * Daniel Lindsley
 * Daniel Néri
 * Daniel Reverri
+* [David Basden](https://github.com/dbasden)
 * David Koblas
 * Dmitry Rozhkov
 * Eric Florenzano

riak/transports/http/connection.py

@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@ def _request(self, method, uri, headers={}, body='', stream=False):
 
         try:
             self._connection.request(method, uri, body, headers)
-            response = self._connection.getresponse()
+            try:
+                response = self._connection.getresponse(buffering=True)
+            except TypeError:
+                response = self._connection.getresponse()
 
             if stream:
                 # The caller is responsible for fully reading the