diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 719cb23..a8f4b97 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 Release History
 ===============
 
+0.0.39 (2018-11-14)
++++++++++++++++++++
+* Fix for Chunked Decoding exception thrown while reading response.content
+
 0.0.38 (2018-11-12)
 +++++++++++++++++++
 * Added support for recursive acl functions
diff --git a/azure/datalake/store/__init__.py b/azure/datalake/store/__init__.py
index 23dce3c..99062ef 100644
--- a/azure/datalake/store/__init__.py
+++ b/azure/datalake/store/__init__.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # license information.
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-__version__ = "0.0.38"
+__version__ = "0.0.39"
 
 
 from .core import AzureDLFileSystem
diff --git a/azure/datalake/store/lib.py b/azure/datalake/store/lib.py
index ebc7f01..301151d 100644
--- a/azure/datalake/store/lib.py
+++ b/azure/datalake/store/lib.py
@@ -414,6 +414,8 @@ def call(self, op, path='', is_extended=False, expected_error_code=None, retry_p
                                             path=path,
                                             headers=headers,
                                             **kwargs)
+                # Trigger download here so any errors can be retried. response.content is cached for future use.
+                temp_download = response.content
             except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
                 last_exception = e
                 response = None