{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/biocore/scikit-bio/issues/914","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/biocore/scikit-bio/issues/914/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/biocore/scikit-bio/issues/914/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/biocore/scikit-bio/issues/914/events","html_url":"https://github.com/biocore/scikit-bio/issues/914","id":73136263,"number":914,"title":"Improve URL streaming in open_file","user":{"login":"ElDeveloper","id":375307,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/375307?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ElDeveloper","html_url":"https://github.com/ElDeveloper","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ElDeveloper/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ElDeveloper/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ElDeveloper/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ElDeveloper/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ElDeveloper/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ElDeveloper/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ElDeveloper/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ElDeveloper/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ElDeveloper/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-05-04T21:45:33Z","updated_at":"2015-05-04T21:45:33Z","closed_at":null,"body":"As noted in [this discussion](https://github.com/biocore/scikit-bio/pull/903#discussion_r29390201) from #903, opening URLs through `open_file`/`open_files` could be improved in a way that the contents of a request are not all loaded into memory and instead are read from disk.\r\n\r\nI've proposed a strategy that will likely work just fine, however this depends on an open issue in the `CacheControl` repo https://github.com/ionrock/cachecontrol/issues/77 ."}}