diff --git a/glanceclient/common/utils.py b/glanceclient/common/utils.py
index fe7a51a5..61c526ee 100644
--- a/glanceclient/common/utils.py
+++ b/glanceclient/common/utils.py
@@ -421,3 +421,18 @@ def safe_header(name, value):
         return name, "{SHA1}%s" % d
     else:
         return name, value
+
+
+class IterableWithLength(object):
+    def __init__(self, iterable, length):
+        self.iterable = iterable
+        self.length = length
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self.iterable
+
+    def next(self):
+        return next(self.iterable)
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return self.length
diff --git a/glanceclient/v1/images.py b/glanceclient/v1/images.py
index 87060c23..e3a6e695 100644
--- a/glanceclient/v1/images.py
+++ b/glanceclient/v1/images.py
@@ -140,14 +140,15 @@ class ImageManager(base.ManagerWithFind):
         image_id = base.getid(image)
         resp, body = self.client.get('/v1/images/%s'
                                      % urlparse.quote(str(image_id)))
+        content_length = int(resp.headers.get('content-length', 0))
         checksum = resp.headers.get('x-image-meta-checksum', None)
         if do_checksum and checksum is not None:
-            return utils.integrity_iter(body, checksum)
+            body = utils.integrity_iter(body, checksum)
         return_request_id = kwargs.get('return_req_id', None)
         if return_request_id is not None:
             return_request_id.append(resp.headers.get(OS_REQ_ID_HDR, None))
 
-        return body
+        return utils.IterableWithLength(body, content_length)
 
     def list(self, **kwargs):
         """Get a list of images.
diff --git a/glanceclient/v2/images.py b/glanceclient/v2/images.py
index 6ec92507..b49c5ee0 100644
--- a/glanceclient/v2/images.py
+++ b/glanceclient/v2/images.py
@@ -115,10 +115,12 @@ class Controller(object):
         url = '/v2/images/%s/file' % image_id
         resp, body = self.http_client.get(url)
         checksum = resp.headers.get('content-md5', None)
+        content_length = int(resp.headers.get('content-length', 0))
+
         if do_checksum and checksum is not None:
-            return utils.integrity_iter(body, checksum)
-        else:
-            return body
+            body = utils.integrity_iter(body, checksum)
+
+        return utils.IterableWithLength(body, content_length)
 
     def upload(self, image_id, image_data, image_size=None):
         """
diff --git a/tests/v2/test_shell_v2.py b/tests/v2/test_shell_v2.py
index 23894eab..3480e5c9 100644
--- a/tests/v2/test_shell_v2.py
+++ b/tests/v2/test_shell_v2.py
@@ -341,6 +341,19 @@ class ShellV2Test(testtools.TestCase):
             test_shell.do_image_upload(self.gc, args)
             mocked_upload.assert_called_once_with('IMG-01', 'testfile', 1024)
 
+    def test_image_download(self):
+        args = self._make_args(
+            {'id': 'IMG-01', 'file': 'test', 'progress': True})
+
+        with mock.patch.object(self.gc.images, 'data') as mocked_data:
+            def _data():
+                for c in 'abcedf':
+                    yield c
+            mocked_data.return_value = utils.IterableWithLength(_data(), 5)
+
+            test_shell.do_image_download(self.gc, args)
+            mocked_data.assert_called_once_with('IMG-01')
+
     def test_do_image_delete(self):
         args = self._make_args({'id': 'pass', 'file': 'test'})
         with mock.patch.object(self.gc.images, 'delete') as mocked_delete: