From 62d2ea80340de1ae146cce3c85490444a8fca047 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 18:47:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] default chunk size for .content much bigger

---
 requests/models.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index ff0ef019..04d3ac8e 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ except ImportError:
     pass
 
 REDIRECT_STATI = (codes.moved, codes.found, codes.other, codes.temporary_moved)
-
+CONTENT_CHUNK_SIZE = 10 * 1024
 
 class Request(object):
     """The :class:`Request <Request>` object. It carries out all functionality of
@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ class Response(object):
                 if self.status_code is 0:
                     self._content = None
                 else:
-                    self._content = bytes().join(self.iter_content()) or bytes()
+                    self._content = bytes().join(self.iter_content(CONTENT_CHUNK_SIZE)) or bytes()
 
             except AttributeError:
                 self._content = None