If requests.raw won't work, sut fudge it with a StringIO for now.

apps/social/models.py

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ from utils.feed_functions import relative_timesince
 from utils.story_functions import truncate_chars, strip_tags, linkify, image_size
 from utils.scrubber import SelectiveScriptScrubber
 from utils import s3_utils
+from StringIO import StringIO
 
 RECOMMENDATIONS_LIMIT = 5
 IGNORE_IMAGE_SOURCES = [
@@ -1884,7 +1885,8 @@ class MSharedStory(mongo.Document):
             if any(ignore in image_source for ignore in IGNORE_IMAGE_SOURCES):
                 continue
             req = requests.get(image_source, headers=headers, stream=True)
-            _, width, height = image_size(req.content)
+            datastream = StringIO(req.content[:30])
+            _, width, height = image_size(datastream)
             if width <= 16 or height <= 16:
                 continue
             image_sizes.append({'src': image_source, 'size': (width, height)})

utils/story_functions.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from django.utils.html import strip_tags as strip_tags_django
 from django.conf import settings
 from utils.tornado_escape import linkify as linkify_tornado
 from utils.tornado_escape import xhtml_unescape as xhtml_unescape_tornado
-# from vendor import reseekfile
+from vendor import reseekfile
 
 COMMENTS_RE = re.compile('\<![ \r\n\t]*(--([^\-]|[\r\n]|-[^\-])*--[ \r\n\t]*)\>')
 
@@ -239,9 +239,8 @@ def truncate_chars(value, max_length):
     return truncd_val + "..."
 
 def image_size(datastream):
-    # datastream = reseekfile.ReseekFile(datastream)
-    # data = str(datastream.read(30))
-    data = datastream[:30]
+    datastream = reseekfile.ReseekFile(datastream)
+    data = str(datastream.read(30))
     size = len(data)
     height = -1
     width = -1