diff --git a/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/Requester.java b/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/Requester.java
index 4dcc63142..595b844dd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/Requester.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/Requester.java
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
-import java.io.InterruptedIOException;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.lang.reflect.Array;
@@ -55,8 +54,6 @@ import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException;
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 
-import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
-
 /**
  * A builder pattern for making HTTP call and parsing its output.
  *
@@ -247,6 +244,20 @@ class Requester {
         }
     }
 
+    public InputStream read(String tailApiUrl) throws IOException {
+        while (true) {// loop while API rate limit is hit
+            HttpURLConnection uc = setupConnection(root.getApiURL(tailApiUrl));
+
+            buildRequest(uc);
+
+            try {
+                return uc.getInputStream();
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                handleApiError(e,uc);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     private void buildRequest(HttpURLConnection uc) throws IOException {
         if (!method.equals("GET")) {
             uc.setDoOutput(true);