diff -r 9936ed1d04f4 -r 245a67fe2574 mercurial/statichttprepo.py
--- a/mercurial/statichttprepo.py	Sun May 02 21:56:25 2010 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/statichttprepo.py	Tue May 11 16:28:09 2010 -0500
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
             return httprangereader(f, urlopener)
         return o
 
+    opener.options = {'nonlazy': 1}
     return opener
 
 class statichttprepository(localrepo.localrepository):