diff --git a/swift/common/request_helpers.py b/swift/common/request_helpers.py
index d42356b58b..07e34d8b46 100644
--- a/swift/common/request_helpers.py
+++ b/swift/common/request_helpers.py
@@ -33,10 +33,12 @@ from swift.common.storage_policy import POLICIES
 from swift.common.constraints import FORMAT2CONTENT_TYPE
 from swift.common.exceptions import ListingIterError, SegmentError
 from swift.common.http import is_success
-from swift.common.swob import (HTTPBadRequest, HTTPNotAcceptable,
-                               HTTPServiceUnavailable, Range)
+from swift.common.swob import HTTPBadRequest, HTTPNotAcceptable, \
+    HTTPServiceUnavailable, Range, is_chunked
 from swift.common.utils import split_path, validate_device_partition, \
-    close_if_possible, maybe_multipart_byteranges_to_document_iters
+    close_if_possible, maybe_multipart_byteranges_to_document_iters, \
+    multipart_byteranges_to_document_iters, parse_content_type, \
+    parse_content_range
 
 from swift.common.wsgi import make_subrequest
 
@@ -500,3 +502,45 @@ class SegmentedIterable(object):
         backend server is closed.
         """
         close_if_possible(self.app_iter)
+
+
+def http_response_to_document_iters(response, read_chunk_size=4096):
+    """
+    Takes a successful object-GET HTTP response and turns it into an
+    iterator of (first-byte, last-byte, length, headers, body-file)
+    5-tuples.
+
+    The response must either be a 200 or a 206; if you feed in a 204 or
+    something similar, this probably won't work.
+
+    :param response: HTTP response, like from bufferedhttp.http_connect(),
+        not a swob.Response.
+    """
+    chunked = is_chunked(dict(response.getheaders()))
+
+    if response.status == 200:
+        if chunked:
+            # Single "range" that's the whole object with an unknown length
+            return iter([(0, None, None, response.getheaders(),
+                          response)])
+
+        # Single "range" that's the whole object
+        content_length = int(response.getheader('Content-Length'))
+        return iter([(0, content_length - 1, content_length,
+                      response.getheaders(), response)])
+
+    content_type, params_list = parse_content_type(
+        response.getheader('Content-Type'))
+    if content_type != 'multipart/byteranges':
+        # Single range; no MIME framing, just the bytes. The start and end
+        # byte indices are in the Content-Range header.
+        start, end, length = parse_content_range(
+            response.getheader('Content-Range'))
+        return iter([(start, end, length, response.getheaders(), response)])
+    else:
+        # Multiple ranges; the response body is a multipart/byteranges MIME
+        # document, and we have to parse it using the MIME boundary
+        # extracted from the Content-Type header.
+        params = dict(params_list)
+        return multipart_byteranges_to_document_iters(
+            response, params['boundary'], read_chunk_size)
diff --git a/swift/common/swob.py b/swift/common/swob.py
index 5df9f2869c..c7c9afe358 100644
--- a/swift/common/swob.py
+++ b/swift/common/swob.py
@@ -804,6 +804,27 @@ def _host_url_property():
     return property(getter, doc="Get url for request/response up to path")
 
 
+def is_chunked(headers):
+    te = None
+    for key in headers:
+        if key.lower() == 'transfer-encoding':
+            te = headers.get(key)
+    if te:
+        encodings = te.split(',')
+        if len(encodings) > 1:
+            raise AttributeError('Unsupported Transfer-Coding header'
+                                 ' value specified in Transfer-Encoding'
+                                 ' header')
+        # If there are more than one transfer encoding value, the last
+        # one must be chunked, see RFC 2616 Sec. 3.6
+        if encodings[-1].lower() == 'chunked':
+            return True
+        else:
+            raise ValueError('Invalid Transfer-Encoding header value')
+    else:
+        return False
+
+
 class Request(object):
     """
     WSGI Request object.
@@ -955,7 +976,7 @@ class Request(object):
 
     @property
     def is_chunked(self):
-        return 'chunked' in self.headers.get('transfer-encoding', '')
+        return is_chunked(self.headers)
 
     @property
     def url(self):
@@ -1061,22 +1082,7 @@ class Request(object):
         :raises AttributeError: if the last value of the transfer-encoding
             header is not "chunked"
         """
-        te = self.headers.get('transfer-encoding')
-        if te:
-            encodings = te.split(',')
-            if len(encodings) > 1:
-                raise AttributeError('Unsupported Transfer-Coding header'
-                                     ' value specified in Transfer-Encoding'
-                                     ' header')
-            # If there are more than one transfer encoding value, the last
-            # one must be chunked, see RFC 2616 Sec. 3.6
-            if encodings[-1].lower() == 'chunked':
-                chunked = True
-            else:
-                raise ValueError('Invalid Transfer-Encoding header value')
-        else:
-            chunked = False
-        if not chunked:
+        if not is_chunked(self.headers):
             # Because we are not using chunked transfer encoding we can pay
             # attention to the content-length header.
             fsize = self.headers.get('content-length', None)
diff --git a/swift/common/utils.py b/swift/common/utils.py
index 216009bcda..cb66c19628 100644
--- a/swift/common/utils.py
+++ b/swift/common/utils.py
@@ -3627,8 +3627,8 @@ def document_iters_to_http_response_body(ranges_iter, boundary, multipart,
     HTTP response body, whether that's multipart/byteranges or not.
 
     This is almost, but not quite, the inverse of
-    http_response_to_document_iters(). This function only yields chunks of
-    the body, not any headers.
+    request_helpers.http_response_to_document_iters(). This function only
+    yields chunks of the body, not any headers.
 
     :param ranges_iter: an iterator of dictionaries, one per range.
         Each dictionary must contain at least the following key:
@@ -3703,41 +3703,6 @@ def multipart_byteranges_to_document_iters(input_file, boundary,
         yield (first_byte, last_byte, length, headers.items(), body)
 
 
-def http_response_to_document_iters(response, read_chunk_size=4096):
-    """
-    Takes a successful object-GET HTTP response and turns it into an
-    iterator of (first-byte, last-byte, length, headers, body-file)
-    5-tuples.
-
-    The response must either be a 200 or a 206; if you feed in a 204 or
-    something similar, this probably won't work.
-
-    :param response: HTTP response, like from bufferedhttp.http_connect(),
-        not a swob.Response.
-    """
-    if response.status == 200:
-        # Single "range" that's the whole object
-        content_length = int(response.getheader('Content-Length'))
-        return iter([(0, content_length - 1, content_length,
-                      response.getheaders(), response)])
-
-    content_type, params_list = parse_content_type(
-        response.getheader('Content-Type'))
-    if content_type != 'multipart/byteranges':
-        # Single range; no MIME framing, just the bytes. The start and end
-        # byte indices are in the Content-Range header.
-        start, end, length = parse_content_range(
-            response.getheader('Content-Range'))
-        return iter([(start, end, length, response.getheaders(), response)])
-    else:
-        # Multiple ranges; the response body is a multipart/byteranges MIME
-        # document, and we have to parse it using the MIME boundary
-        # extracted from the Content-Type header.
-        params = dict(params_list)
-        return multipart_byteranges_to_document_iters(
-            response, params['boundary'], read_chunk_size)
-
-
 #: Regular expression to match form attributes.
 ATTRIBUTES_RE = re.compile(r'(\w+)=(".*?"|[^";]+)(; ?|$)')
 
diff --git a/swift/proxy/controllers/base.py b/swift/proxy/controllers/base.py
index 99b1551b27..fc36d9dfae 100644
--- a/swift/proxy/controllers/base.py
+++ b/swift/proxy/controllers/base.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ from swift.common.wsgi import make_pre_authed_env
 from swift.common.utils import Timestamp, config_true_value, \
     public, split_path, list_from_csv, GreenthreadSafeIterator, \
     GreenAsyncPile, quorum_size, parse_content_type, \
-    http_response_to_document_iters, document_iters_to_http_response_body
+    document_iters_to_http_response_body
 from swift.common.bufferedhttp import http_connect
 from swift.common.exceptions import ChunkReadTimeout, ChunkWriteTimeout, \
     ConnectionTimeout, RangeAlreadyComplete
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ from swift.common.swob import Request, Response, HeaderKeyDict, Range, \
     HTTPException, HTTPRequestedRangeNotSatisfiable, HTTPServiceUnavailable, \
     status_map
 from swift.common.request_helpers import strip_sys_meta_prefix, \
-    strip_user_meta_prefix, is_user_meta, is_sys_meta, is_sys_or_user_meta
+    strip_user_meta_prefix, is_user_meta, is_sys_meta, is_sys_or_user_meta, \
+    http_response_to_document_iters
 from swift.common.storage_policy import POLICIES
 
 
diff --git a/test/unit/common/test_request_helpers.py b/test/unit/common/test_request_helpers.py
index 9ca750d525..c13bc03ca9 100644
--- a/test/unit/common/test_request_helpers.py
+++ b/test/unit/common/test_request_helpers.py
@@ -16,13 +16,16 @@
 """Tests for swift.common.request_helpers"""
 
 import unittest
-from swift.common.swob import Request, HTTPException
+from swift.common.swob import Request, HTTPException, HeaderKeyDict
 from swift.common.storage_policy import POLICIES, EC_POLICY, REPL_POLICY
 from swift.common.request_helpers import is_sys_meta, is_user_meta, \
     is_sys_or_user_meta, strip_sys_meta_prefix, strip_user_meta_prefix, \
-    remove_items, copy_header_subset, get_name_and_placement
+    remove_items, copy_header_subset, get_name_and_placement, \
+    http_response_to_document_iters
 
 from test.unit import patch_policies
+from test.unit.common.test_utils import FakeResponse
+
 
 server_types = ['account', 'container', 'object']
 
@@ -158,3 +161,115 @@ class TestRequestHelpers(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(suffix_parts, '')  # still false-y
         self.assertEqual(policy, POLICIES[1])
         self.assertEqual(policy.policy_type, REPL_POLICY)
+
+
+class TestHTTPResponseToDocumentIters(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_200(self):
+        fr = FakeResponse(
+            200,
+            {'Content-Length': '10', 'Content-Type': 'application/lunch'},
+            'sandwiches')
+
+        doc_iters = http_response_to_document_iters(fr)
+        first_byte, last_byte, length, headers, body = next(doc_iters)
+        self.assertEqual(first_byte, 0)
+        self.assertEqual(last_byte, 9)
+        self.assertEqual(length, 10)
+        header_dict = HeaderKeyDict(headers)
+        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Length'), '10')
+        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Type'), 'application/lunch')
+        self.assertEqual(body.read(), 'sandwiches')
+
+        self.assertRaises(StopIteration, next, doc_iters)
+
+        fr = FakeResponse(
+            200,
+            {'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked',
+             'Content-Type': 'application/lunch'},
+            'sandwiches')
+
+        doc_iters = http_response_to_document_iters(fr)
+        first_byte, last_byte, length, headers, body = next(doc_iters)
+        self.assertEqual(first_byte, 0)
+        self.assertIsNone(last_byte)
+        self.assertIsNone(length)
+        header_dict = HeaderKeyDict(headers)
+        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Transfer-Encoding'), 'chunked')
+        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Type'), 'application/lunch')
+        self.assertEqual(body.read(), 'sandwiches')
+
+        self.assertRaises(StopIteration, next, doc_iters)
+
+    def test_206_single_range(self):
+        fr = FakeResponse(
+            206,
+            {'Content-Length': '8', 'Content-Type': 'application/lunch',
+             'Content-Range': 'bytes 1-8/10'},
+            'andwiche')
+
+        doc_iters = http_response_to_document_iters(fr)
+        first_byte, last_byte, length, headers, body = next(doc_iters)
+        self.assertEqual(first_byte, 1)
+        self.assertEqual(last_byte, 8)
+        self.assertEqual(length, 10)
+        header_dict = HeaderKeyDict(headers)
+        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Length'), '8')
+        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Type'), 'application/lunch')
+        self.assertEqual(body.read(), 'andwiche')
+
+        self.assertRaises(StopIteration, next, doc_iters)
+
+        # Chunked response should be treated in the same way as non-chunked one
+        fr = FakeResponse(
+            206,
+            {'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked',
+             'Content-Type': 'application/lunch',
+             'Content-Range': 'bytes 1-8/10'},
+            'andwiche')
+
+        doc_iters = http_response_to_document_iters(fr)
+        first_byte, last_byte, length, headers, body = next(doc_iters)
+        self.assertEqual(first_byte, 1)
+        self.assertEqual(last_byte, 8)
+        self.assertEqual(length, 10)
+        header_dict = HeaderKeyDict(headers)
+        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Type'), 'application/lunch')
+        self.assertEqual(body.read(), 'andwiche')
+
+        self.assertRaises(StopIteration, next, doc_iters)
+
+    def test_206_multiple_ranges(self):
+        fr = FakeResponse(
+            206,
+            {'Content-Type': 'multipart/byteranges; boundary=asdfasdfasdf'},
+            ("--asdfasdfasdf\r\n"
+             "Content-Type: application/lunch\r\n"
+             "Content-Range: bytes 0-3/10\r\n"
+             "\r\n"
+             "sand\r\n"
+             "--asdfasdfasdf\r\n"
+             "Content-Type: application/lunch\r\n"
+             "Content-Range: bytes 6-9/10\r\n"
+             "\r\n"
+             "ches\r\n"
+             "--asdfasdfasdf--"))
+
+        doc_iters = http_response_to_document_iters(fr)
+
+        first_byte, last_byte, length, headers, body = next(doc_iters)
+        self.assertEqual(first_byte, 0)
+        self.assertEqual(last_byte, 3)
+        self.assertEqual(length, 10)
+        header_dict = HeaderKeyDict(headers)
+        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Type'), 'application/lunch')
+        self.assertEqual(body.read(), 'sand')
+
+        first_byte, last_byte, length, headers, body = next(doc_iters)
+        self.assertEqual(first_byte, 6)
+        self.assertEqual(last_byte, 9)
+        self.assertEqual(length, 10)
+        header_dict = HeaderKeyDict(headers)
+        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Type'), 'application/lunch')
+        self.assertEqual(body.read(), 'ches')
+
+        self.assertRaises(StopIteration, next, doc_iters)
diff --git a/test/unit/common/test_swob.py b/test/unit/common/test_swob.py
index c03b400d9a..c1900ec5e4 100644
--- a/test/unit/common/test_swob.py
+++ b/test/unit/common/test_swob.py
@@ -339,6 +339,41 @@ class TestMatch(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertTrue('c' not in match)
 
 
+class TestTransferEncoding(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_is_chunked(self):
+        headers = {}
+        self.assertFalse(swift.common.swob.is_chunked(headers))
+
+        headers['Transfer-Encoding'] = 'chunked'
+        self.assertTrue(swift.common.swob.is_chunked(headers))
+
+        headers['Transfer-Encoding'] = 'gzip,chunked'
+        try:
+            swift.common.swob.is_chunked(headers)
+        except AttributeError as e:
+            self.assertEqual(str(e), "Unsupported Transfer-Coding header"
+                             " value specified in Transfer-Encoding header")
+        else:
+            self.fail("Expected an AttributeError raised for 'gzip'")
+
+        headers['Transfer-Encoding'] = 'gzip'
+        try:
+            swift.common.swob.is_chunked(headers)
+        except ValueError as e:
+            self.assertEqual(str(e), "Invalid Transfer-Encoding header value")
+        else:
+            self.fail("Expected a ValueError raised for 'gzip'")
+
+        headers['Transfer-Encoding'] = 'gzip,identity'
+        try:
+            swift.common.swob.is_chunked(headers)
+        except AttributeError as e:
+            self.assertEqual(str(e), "Unsupported Transfer-Coding header"
+                             " value specified in Transfer-Encoding header")
+        else:
+            self.fail("Expected an AttributeError raised for 'gzip,identity'")
+
+
 class TestAccept(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_accept_json(self):
         for accept in ('application/json', 'application/json;q=1.0,*/*;q=0.9',
diff --git a/test/unit/common/test_utils.py b/test/unit/common/test_utils.py
index 50da647915..02dae8132a 100644
--- a/test/unit/common/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/unit/common/test_utils.py
@@ -55,10 +55,9 @@ from netifaces import AF_INET6
 from mock import MagicMock, patch
 from six.moves.configparser import NoSectionError, NoOptionError
 
-from swift.common.exceptions import (Timeout, MessageTimeout,
-                                     ConnectionTimeout, LockTimeout,
-                                     ReplicationLockTimeout,
-                                     MimeInvalid, ThreadPoolDead)
+from swift.common.exceptions import Timeout, MessageTimeout, \
+    ConnectionTimeout, LockTimeout, ReplicationLockTimeout, \
+    MimeInvalid, ThreadPoolDead
 from swift.common import utils
 from swift.common.container_sync_realms import ContainerSyncRealms
 from swift.common.swob import Request, Response, HeaderKeyDict
@@ -5230,81 +5229,6 @@ class FakeResponse(object):
         return self.body.readline(length)
 
 
-class TestHTTPResponseToDocumentIters(unittest.TestCase):
-    def test_200(self):
-        fr = FakeResponse(
-            200,
-            {'Content-Length': '10', 'Content-Type': 'application/lunch'},
-            'sandwiches')
-
-        doc_iters = utils.http_response_to_document_iters(fr)
-        first_byte, last_byte, length, headers, body = next(doc_iters)
-        self.assertEqual(first_byte, 0)
-        self.assertEqual(last_byte, 9)
-        self.assertEqual(length, 10)
-        header_dict = HeaderKeyDict(headers)
-        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Length'), '10')
-        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Type'), 'application/lunch')
-        self.assertEqual(body.read(), 'sandwiches')
-
-        self.assertRaises(StopIteration, next, doc_iters)
-
-    def test_206_single_range(self):
-        fr = FakeResponse(
-            206,
-            {'Content-Length': '8', 'Content-Type': 'application/lunch',
-             'Content-Range': 'bytes 1-8/10'},
-            'andwiche')
-
-        doc_iters = utils.http_response_to_document_iters(fr)
-        first_byte, last_byte, length, headers, body = next(doc_iters)
-        self.assertEqual(first_byte, 1)
-        self.assertEqual(last_byte, 8)
-        self.assertEqual(length, 10)
-        header_dict = HeaderKeyDict(headers)
-        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Length'), '8')
-        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Type'), 'application/lunch')
-        self.assertEqual(body.read(), 'andwiche')
-
-        self.assertRaises(StopIteration, next, doc_iters)
-
-    def test_206_multiple_ranges(self):
-        fr = FakeResponse(
-            206,
-            {'Content-Type': 'multipart/byteranges; boundary=asdfasdfasdf'},
-            ("--asdfasdfasdf\r\n"
-             "Content-Type: application/lunch\r\n"
-             "Content-Range: bytes 0-3/10\r\n"
-             "\r\n"
-             "sand\r\n"
-             "--asdfasdfasdf\r\n"
-             "Content-Type: application/lunch\r\n"
-             "Content-Range: bytes 6-9/10\r\n"
-             "\r\n"
-             "ches\r\n"
-             "--asdfasdfasdf--"))
-
-        doc_iters = utils.http_response_to_document_iters(fr)
-
-        first_byte, last_byte, length, headers, body = next(doc_iters)
-        self.assertEqual(first_byte, 0)
-        self.assertEqual(last_byte, 3)
-        self.assertEqual(length, 10)
-        header_dict = HeaderKeyDict(headers)
-        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Type'), 'application/lunch')
-        self.assertEqual(body.read(), 'sand')
-
-        first_byte, last_byte, length, headers, body = next(doc_iters)
-        self.assertEqual(first_byte, 6)
-        self.assertEqual(last_byte, 9)
-        self.assertEqual(length, 10)
-        header_dict = HeaderKeyDict(headers)
-        self.assertEqual(header_dict.get('Content-Type'), 'application/lunch')
-        self.assertEqual(body.read(), 'ches')
-
-        self.assertRaises(StopIteration, next, doc_iters)
-
-
 class TestDocumentItersToHTTPResponseBody(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_no_parts(self):
         body = utils.document_iters_to_http_response_body(
diff --git a/test/unit/proxy/controllers/test_base.py b/test/unit/proxy/controllers/test_base.py
index 85b3b305e2..295be11cee 100644
--- a/test/unit/proxy/controllers/test_base.py
+++ b/test/unit/proxy/controllers/test_base.py
@@ -801,6 +801,46 @@ class TestFuncs(unittest.TestCase):
             client_chunks = list(app_iter)
         self.assertEqual(client_chunks, ['abcd1234', 'efgh5678'])
 
+    def test_client_chunk_size_resuming_chunked(self):
+
+        class TestChunkedSource(object):
+            def __init__(self, chunks):
+                self.chunks = list(chunks)
+                self.status = 200
+                self.headers = {'transfer-encoding': 'chunked',
+                                'content-type': 'text/plain'}
+
+            def read(self, _read_size):
+                if self.chunks:
+                    chunk = self.chunks.pop(0)
+                    if chunk is None:
+                        raise exceptions.ChunkReadTimeout()
+                    else:
+                        return chunk
+                else:
+                    return ''
+
+            def getheader(self, header):
+                return self.headers.get(header.lower())
+
+            def getheaders(self):
+                return self.headers
+
+        node = {'ip': '1.2.3.4', 'port': 6000, 'device': 'sda'}
+
+        source1 = TestChunkedSource(['abcd', '1234', 'abc', None])
+        source2 = TestChunkedSource(['efgh5678'])
+        req = Request.blank('/v1/a/c/o')
+        handler = GetOrHeadHandler(
+            self.app, req, 'Object', None, None, None, {},
+            client_chunk_size=8)
+
+        app_iter = handler._make_app_iter(req, node, source1)
+        with patch.object(handler, '_get_source_and_node',
+                          lambda: (source2, node)):
+            client_chunks = list(app_iter)
+        self.assertEqual(client_chunks, ['abcd1234', 'efgh5678'])
+
     def test_bytes_to_skip(self):
         # if you start at the beginning, skip nothing
         self.assertEqual(bytes_to_skip(1024, 0), 0)
diff --git a/test/unit/proxy/controllers/test_obj.py b/test/unit/proxy/controllers/test_obj.py
index c39cd19502..d0fcf96fd3 100755
--- a/test/unit/proxy/controllers/test_obj.py
+++ b/test/unit/proxy/controllers/test_obj.py
@@ -712,6 +712,13 @@ class TestReplicatedObjController(BaseObjectControllerMixin,
         self.assertEqual(resp.status_int, 200)
         self.assertIn('Accept-Ranges', resp.headers)
 
+    def test_GET_transfer_encoding_chunked(self):
+        req = swift.common.swob.Request.blank('/v1/a/c/o')
+        with set_http_connect(200, headers={'transfer-encoding': 'chunked'}):
+            resp = req.get_response(self.app)
+        self.assertEqual(resp.status_int, 200)
+        self.assertEqual(resp.headers['Transfer-Encoding'], 'chunked')
+
     def test_GET_error(self):
         req = swift.common.swob.Request.blank('/v1/a/c/o')
         with set_http_connect(503, 200):
diff --git a/test/unit/proxy/test_server.py b/test/unit/proxy/test_server.py
index 0133056eeb..291f23b2ac 100644
--- a/test/unit/proxy/test_server.py
+++ b/test/unit/proxy/test_server.py
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ from swift.common.swob import Request, Response, HTTPUnauthorized, \
 from swift.common import storage_policy
 from swift.common.storage_policy import StoragePolicy, ECStoragePolicy, \
     StoragePolicyCollection, POLICIES
+import swift.common.request_helpers
 from swift.common.request_helpers import get_sys_meta_prefix
 
 # mocks
@@ -1604,7 +1605,8 @@ class TestObjectController(unittest.TestCase):
                 bytes_before_timeout[0] -= len(result)
                 return result
 
-        orig_hrtdi = proxy_base.http_response_to_document_iters
+        orig_hrtdi = swift.common.request_helpers. \
+            http_response_to_document_iters
 
         # Use this to mock out http_response_to_document_iters. On the first
         # call, the result will be sabotaged to blow up with
@@ -1635,7 +1637,8 @@ class TestObjectController(unittest.TestCase):
         # do is mock out stuff so the proxy thinks it only read a certain
         # number of bytes before it got a timeout.
         bytes_before_timeout[0] = 300
-        with mock.patch.object(proxy_base, 'http_response_to_document_iters',
+        with mock.patch.object(proxy_base,
+                               'http_response_to_document_iters',
                                single_sabotage_hrtdi):
             req = Request.blank(
                 path,
@@ -1660,7 +1663,8 @@ class TestObjectController(unittest.TestCase):
         kaboomed[0] = 0
         sabotaged[0] = False
         prosrv._error_limiting = {}  # clear out errors
-        with mock.patch.object(proxy_base, 'http_response_to_document_iters',
+        with mock.patch.object(proxy_base,
+                               'http_response_to_document_iters',
                                sabotaged_hrtdi):  # perma-broken
             req = Request.blank(
                 path,
@@ -1697,7 +1701,8 @@ class TestObjectController(unittest.TestCase):
         kaboomed[0] = 0
         sabotaged[0] = False
         prosrv._error_limiting = {}  # clear out errors
-        with mock.patch.object(proxy_base, 'http_response_to_document_iters',
+        with mock.patch.object(proxy_base,
+                               'http_response_to_document_iters',
                                single_sabotage_hrtdi):
             req = Request.blank(
                 path,
@@ -1734,7 +1739,8 @@ class TestObjectController(unittest.TestCase):
         kaboomed[0] = 0
         sabotaged[0] = False
         prosrv._error_limiting = {}  # clear out errors
-        with mock.patch.object(proxy_base, 'http_response_to_document_iters',
+        with mock.patch.object(proxy_base,
+                               'http_response_to_document_iters',
                                single_sabotage_hrtdi):
             req = Request.blank(
                 path,
@@ -1771,7 +1777,8 @@ class TestObjectController(unittest.TestCase):
         kaboomed[0] = 0
         sabotaged[0] = False
         prosrv._error_limiting = {}  # clear out errors
-        with mock.patch.object(proxy_base, 'http_response_to_document_iters',
+        with mock.patch.object(proxy_base,
+                               'http_response_to_document_iters',
                                single_sabotage_hrtdi):
             req = Request.blank(
                 path,