diff --git a/docker/client.py b/docker/client.py
index 678d9a34..5202484b 100644
--- a/docker/client.py
+++ b/docker/client.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import os
 import re
 import shlex
 import struct
-from socket import socket as socket_obj
 import warnings
 
 import requests
@@ -283,31 +282,15 @@ class Client(requests.Session):
 
     def _stream_helper(self, response):
         """Generator for data coming from a chunked-encoded HTTP response."""
-        if six.PY3:
-            socket_fp = self._get_raw_response_socket(response)
-        else:
-            socket_fp = socket_obj(
-                _sock=self._get_raw_response_socket(response)
-            )
-        socket_fp.setblocking(1)
-        socket = socket_fp.makefile()
-        while True:
-            # Because Docker introduced newlines at the end of chunks in v0.9,
-            # and only on some API endpoints, we have to cater for both cases.
-            size_line = socket.readline()
-            if size_line == '\r\n' or size_line == '\n':
-                size_line = socket.readline()
-
-            if len(size_line.strip()) > 0:
-                size = int(size_line, 16)
-            else:
-                break
-
-            if size <= 0:
-                break
-            data = socket.readline()
+        reader = response.raw
+        assert reader._fp.chunked
+        while not reader.closed:
+            # this read call will block until we get a chunk
+            data = reader.read(1)
             if not data:
                 break
+            if reader._fp.chunk_left:
+                data += reader.read(reader._fp.chunk_left)
             yield data
 
     def _multiplexed_buffer_helper(self, response):
diff --git a/tests/test.py b/tests/test.py
index fc14977e..5a5c30e5 100644
--- a/tests/test.py
+++ b/tests/test.py
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ import tarfile
 import tempfile
 import unittest
 import gzip
+import re
+import socket
+import threading
+import time
 
 import docker
 import requests
@@ -1819,5 +1823,92 @@ class DockerClientTest(Cleanup, unittest.TestCase):
         tar = tarfile.open(fileobj=archive)
         self.assertEqual(sorted(tar.getnames()), ['bar', 'bar/foo', 'foo'])
 
+
+class StreamTest(Cleanup, unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        folder = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+        self.build_context = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+        self.addCleanup(shutil.rmtree, folder)
+        self.addCleanup(shutil.rmtree, self.build_context)
+        self.socket_file = os.path.join(folder, 'test_sock.sock')
+        self.server_sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+        self.server_sock.bind(self.socket_file)
+        server_thread = threading.Thread(target=self.run_server)
+        server_thread.setDaemon(True)
+        self.stop_server = False
+        server_thread.start()
+        self.response = None
+        self.request_handler = None
+        self.addCleanup(server_thread.join)
+        self.addCleanup(self.stop)
+
+    def stop(self):
+        self.stop_server = True
+
+    def run_server(self):
+        self.server_sock.setblocking(0)
+
+        self.server_sock.listen(5)
+        while not self.stop_server:
+            try:
+                connection, client_address = self.server_sock.accept()
+            except socket.error:
+                time.sleep(0.01)
+                continue
+
+            connection.setblocking(1)
+            try:
+                self.request_handler(connection)
+            finally:
+                connection.close()
+
+        self.server_sock.close()
+
+    def early_response_sending_handler(self, connection):
+        data = b''
+        headers = None
+
+        connection.sendall(self.response)
+        while not headers:
+            data += connection.recv(2048)
+            parts = data.split(b'\r\n\r\n', 1)
+            if len(parts) == 2:
+                headers, data = parts
+
+        mo = re.search(r'Content-Length: ([0-9]+)', headers.decode())
+        assert mo
+        content_length = int(mo.group(1))
+
+        while True:
+            if len(data) >= content_length:
+                break
+
+            data += connection.recv(2048)
+
+    def test_early_stream_response(self):
+        self.request_handler = self.early_response_sending_handler
+        lines = []
+        for i in range(0, 50):
+            line = str(i).encode()
+            lines += [('%x' % len(line)).encode(), line]
+        lines.append(b'0')
+        lines.append(b'')
+
+        self.response = (
+            b'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
+            b'Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n'
+            b'\r\n'
+        ) + b'\r\n'.join(lines)
+
+        client = docker.Client(base_url="http+unix:/" + self.socket_file)
+        stream = client.build(
+            path=os.path.dirname(self.build_context),
+            stream=True)
+
+        self.assertEqual(list(stream), [
+            str(i).encode() for i in range(50)])
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()