def _read(self, n):
        """
        It seems that SSL Objects read() method may not supply as much
        as you're asking for, at least with extremely large messages.
        somewhere > 16K - found this in the test_channel.py test_large
        unittest.

        """
        result = self.sslobj.read(n)

        while len(result) < n:
            s = self.sslobj.read(n - len(result))
            if not s:
                raise IOError('Socket closed')
            result += s

        return result
It seems that SSL Objects read() method may not supply as much
        as you're asking for, at least with extremely large messages.
        somewhere > 16K - found this in the test_channel.py test_large
        unittest.