def read(self, amt=None, decode_content=None, cache_content=False):
        """
        Similar to :meth:`httplib.HTTPResponse.read`, but with two additional
        parameters: ``decode_content`` and ``cache_content``.

        :param amt:
            How much of the content to read. If specified, caching is skipped
            because it doesn't make sense to cache partial content as the full
            response.

        :param decode_content:
            If True, will attempt to decode the body based on the
            'content-encoding' header.

        :param cache_content:
            If True, will save the returned data such that the same result is
            returned despite of the state of the underlying file object. This
            is useful if you want the ``.data`` property to continue working
            after having ``.read()`` the file object. (Overridden if ``amt`` is
            set.)
        """
        self._init_decoder()
        if decode_content is None:
            decode_content = self.decode_content

        if self._fp is None:
            return

        flush_decoder = False
        data = None

        with self._error_catcher():
            if amt is None:
                # cStringIO doesn't like amt=None
                data = self._fp.read()
                flush_decoder = True
            else:
                cache_content = False
                data = self._fp.read(amt)
                if amt != 0 and not data:  # Platform-specific: Buggy versions of Python.
                    # Close the connection when no data is returned
                    #
                    # This is redundant to what httplib/http.client _should_
                    # already do.  However, versions of python released before
                    # December 15, 2012 (http://bugs.python.org/issue16298) do
                    # not properly close the connection in all cases. There is
                    # no harm in redundantly calling close.
                    self._fp.close()
                    flush_decoder = True
                    if self.enforce_content_length and self.length_remaining not in (0, None):
                        # This is an edge case that httplib failed to cover due
                        # to concerns of backward compatibility. We're
                        # addressing it here to make sure IncompleteRead is
                        # raised during streaming, so all calls with incorrect
                        # Content-Length are caught.
                        raise IncompleteRead(self._fp_bytes_read, self.length_remaining)

        if data:
            self._fp_bytes_read += len(data)
            if self.length_remaining is not None:
                self.length_remaining -= len(data)

            data = self._decode(data, decode_content, flush_decoder)

            if cache_content:
                self._body = data

        return data