diff --git a/src/main/java/org/commonjava/util/sidecar/services/ProxyService.java b/src/main/java/org/commonjava/util/sidecar/services/ProxyService.java
index cf09223..363edad 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/commonjava/util/sidecar/services/ProxyService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/commonjava/util/sidecar/services/ProxyService.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import org.commonjava.util.sidecar.config.ProxyConfiguration;
 import org.commonjava.util.sidecar.interceptor.ExceptionHandler;
 import org.commonjava.util.sidecar.interceptor.MetricsHandler;
+import org.commonjava.util.sidecar.util.BufferStreamingOutput;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@
 import javax.inject.Inject;
 import javax.ws.rs.GET;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.StreamingOutput;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
@@ -206,8 +208,8 @@ private Response convertProxyResp( HttpResponse<Buffer> resp )
         } );
         if ( resp.body() != null )
         {
-            byte[] bytes = resp.body().getBytes();
-            builder.entity( bytes );
+            StreamingOutput so = new BufferStreamingOutput( resp );
+            builder.entity( so );
         }
         return builder.build();
     }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/commonjava/util/sidecar/util/BufferStreamingOutput.java b/src/main/java/org/commonjava/util/sidecar/util/BufferStreamingOutput.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f040029
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/commonjava/util/sidecar/util/BufferStreamingOutput.java
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+package org.commonjava.util.sidecar.util;
+
+import io.vertx.mutiny.core.buffer.Buffer;
+import io.vertx.mutiny.ext.web.client.HttpResponse;
+import org.apache.commons.io.output.CountingOutputStream;
+import org.apache.commons.io.output.TeeOutputStream;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.StreamingOutput;
+import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.security.MessageDigest;
+import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.function.Supplier;
+
+public class BufferStreamingOutput
+                implements StreamingOutput
+{
+    private static final int bufSize = 10 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+    private final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger( getClass() );
+
+    private HttpResponse<Buffer> response;
+
+    private Supplier<OutputStream> cacheStreamSupplier;
+
+    public BufferStreamingOutput( HttpResponse<Buffer> response )
+    {
+        this.response = response;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write( OutputStream output ) throws IOException, WebApplicationException
+    {
+        OutputStream cacheStream = null;
+        try(CountingOutputStream cout = new CountingOutputStream( output ))
+        {
+            OutputStream out = cout;
+            if ( cacheStreamSupplier != null )
+            {
+                cacheStream = cacheStreamSupplier.get();
+                if ( cacheStream != null )
+                {
+                    out = new TeeOutputStream( cacheStream, output );
+                }
+            }
+
+            Buffer buffer = response.bodyAsBuffer();
+            int total = buffer.length();
+            int transferred = 0;
+            while ( transferred < total )
+            {
+                int next = bufSize < total ? bufSize : total;
+                byte[] bytes = buffer.getBytes( transferred, next );
+                out.write( bytes );
+
+                transferred = next;
+            }
+            out.flush();
+        }
+        finally
+        {
+            if ( cacheStream != null )
+            {
+                try
+                {
+                    cacheStream.close();
+                }
+                catch ( Exception e )
+                {
+                    logger.error( "Failed to close cache stream: " + e.getMessage(), e );
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void setCacheStreamSupplier( Supplier<OutputStream> cacheStreamSupplier )
+    {
+        this.cacheStreamSupplier = cacheStreamSupplier;
+    }
+}