HTTP application streams a response to the client gradually - how deal with it?

[Harald Massa]

Hello,

I want to connect to an HTTP application, that streams its response to the 
client gradually.

(it is a "web chat")

>From reading documentes and google, I learned that urllib will not fit.

Also httplib --- I only see methods that provide me with whole HTTP-
responses.

Is there any way to deal with "streamed http" without going to socket-
programming?


Tnx,

Harald