add value of show_progress to the http_client_opts

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/http.rb b/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/http.rb
index f17ab5a56d..8d5fe91f0a 100644
--- a/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/http.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/http.rb
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ class Chef
           @cache_control_data ||= CacheControlData.load_and_validate(uri, current_resource.checksum)
         end
 
+        def want_progress?
+          new_resource.show_progress
+        end
+
         def want_mtime_cache_control?
           new_resource.use_last_modified
         end
@@ -108,6 +112,10 @@ class Chef
             Chef::Log.debug("turning gzip compression off due to filename ending in gz")
             opts[:disable_gzip] = true
           end
+          if want_progress?
+            Chef::Log.debug("enabling progress output for streaming requests")
+            opts[:show_progress] = true
+          end
           opts
         end