--- jabberpy-0.5-0/jabber/xmlstream.py
+++ jabberpy-0.5-0/jabber/xmlstream.py
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ class Client(Stream):
             connector.append('\r\n')
             bak = self._read , self._write
             self.write('\r\n'.join(connector))
-            reply = self.read().replace('\r','')
+            reply = self._read(BLOCK_SIZE).replace('\r','')
             self._read , self._write = bak
             try: proto,code,desc=reply.split('\n')[0].split(' ',2)
             except: raise error('Invalid proxy reply')