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I tried to use the following to change the buffersize for a download:
from base64 import encodestring
from httplib import HTTPResponse,HTTPConnection,HTTPSConnection,_UNKNOWN
from datetime import datetime
class FHTTPResponse(HTTPResponse):
 def __init__(self, sock, debuglevel=0, strict=0, method=None):
 print "creating response"
 self.fp = sock.makefile('rb',4096)
 self.debuglevel = debuglevel
 self.strict = strict
 self._method = method
 self.msg = None
 # from the Status-Line of the response
 self.version = _UNKNOWN # HTTP-Version
 self.status = _UNKNOWN # Status-Code
 self.reason = _UNKNOWN # Reason-Phrase
 self.chunked = _UNKNOWN # is "chunked" being used?
 self.chunk_left = _UNKNOWN # bytes left to read in current 
chunk
 self.length = _UNKNOWN # number of bytes left in 
response
 self.will_close = _UNKNOWN # conn will close at end of 
respons 
class FHTTPConnection(HTTPConnection):
 response_class = FHTTPResponse
class FHTTPSConnection(HTTPSConnection):
 response_class = FHTTPResponse
conn = FHTTPSConnection('localhost')
headers = {}
auth = 'Basic '+encodestring('usernmae:password').strip()
headers['Authorization']=
t = datetime.now()
print t
conn.request('GET','/somefile.zip',None,headers)
print 'request:',datetime.now()-t
response = conn.getresponse()
print 'response:',datetime.now()-t
data = response.read()
print 'read:',datetime.now()-t
..however, I saw absolutely no change in download speed.
Aren, I notice in your pastebin code that you do response.read(10485700) 
in a loop rather than just one response.read(), why is that?