gistfile1.txt

$ wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz
--2012-02-03 02:20:07--  http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz
Resolving www.openssl.org... 194.97.152.144
Connecting to www.openssl.org|194.97.152.144|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4040229 (3,9M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz'

100%[=======================================================================>] 4 040 229   1,18M/s   in 3,3s    

2012-02-03 02:20:11 (1,16 MB/s) - `openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz' saved [4040229/4040229]

=> FILE SIZE IS 4040229


$ python
Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct  4 2011, 20:06:09) 
[GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import requests
>>> r = requests.get('http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz')
>>> data = r.raw.read()
>>> len(data)
19896320
>>> r.headers
{'content-length': '4040229', 'content-encoding': 'gzip', 'accept-ranges': 'bytes', 'server': 'Apache/2.2.20 (OpenPKG/CURRENT)', 'last-modified': 'Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:21:26 GMT', 'etag': '"58f7-3da625-4ac45b463c180"', 'date': 'Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:20:41 GMT', 'content-type': 'application/x-gzip'}


=> SIZE IS 19896320

Anothers checks:

>>> fd = open('2-openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz', 'wb')
>>> fd.write(data)
>>> fd.close()

$ md5sum 2-openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz 
ad16b82501176398fde386cb86283acb  2-openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz
$ file openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz 2-openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz 
openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz:   gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Tue Sep  6 15:18:07 2011, max compression
2-openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz: POSIX tar archive (GNU)