Making the HTTP response a full-fledged Readable stream.

lib/browser/api/net.js

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 const url = require('url')
 const {EventEmitter} = require('events')
 const util = require('util')
+const Readable = require('stream').Readable
 const binding = process.atomBinding('net')
 const {net, Net} = binding
 const {URLRequest} = net
@@ -14,10 +15,20 @@ let kSupportedProtocols = new Set()
 kSupportedProtocols.add('http:')
 kSupportedProtocols.add('https:')
 
-class IncomingMessage extends EventEmitter {
+class IncomingMessage extends Readable {
   constructor (urlRequest) {
     super()
     this._url_request = urlRequest
+    this._shouldPush = false;
+    this._data = [];
+    this._url_request.on('data', (event, chunk) => {
+      this._storeInternalData(chunk)
+      this._pushInternalData()
+    })
+    this._url_request.on('end', () => {
+      this._storeInternalData(null)
+      this._pushInternalData()
+    })
   }
 
   get statusCode () {
@@ -48,6 +59,22 @@ class IncomingMessage extends EventEmitter {
     return this._url_request.rawResponseHeaders
   }
 
+  _storeInternalData(chunk) {
+    this._data.push(chunk)
+  }
+
+  _pushInternalData() {
+    while (this._shouldPush && this._data.length > 0) {
+        const chunk = this._data.shift()
+        this._shouldPush = this.push(chunk)
+    }
+  }
+
+  _read() {
+    this._shouldPush = true
+    this._pushInternalData()
+  }
+
 }
 
 URLRequest.prototype._emitRequestEvent = function (async, ...rest) {