I'm still having fun with web2, it is such a huge improvment over twisted.web and I'm absolutely thrilled with it. However, I have a few suggestions: 1. It would be supreme if render() and locateChild() just provided me the Request object; the incantation to ctx.locate() seems a tedious an unnecessary step. 2. I would love a request.getCookie('cookie-name') and response.setCookie('cookie-name','cookie-value', path = '/') helper; that adds the given cookie to the current list. 3. Make the 'path' in the Cookie constructor and setCookie default to '/'. Almost all of the time you want your cookies to be site-wide; adding path = '/' to each request adds a point of failure that makes the system less usable. Kind Regards, Clark P.S. Following is sample cookie code that works with web2 --- from twisted.internet import reactor, defer from twisted.web2 import server, http, resource, channel, iweb from twisted.web2.http_headers import Cookie class Toplevel(resource.Resource): addSlash = True def render(self, ctx): request = ctx.locate(iweb.IRequest) found = False for cookie in request.headers.getHeader('cookie',[]): if cookie.name == 'testing': print "found", cookie.value found = True response = http.Response(stream="Hello monkey!") if not found: print "not-found" cookie = Cookie("testing","womble",path="/") response.headers.setHeader('Set-Cookie',(cookie,)) return response # Standard twisted application Boilerplate from twisted.application import service, strports application = service.Application("demoserver") site = server.Site(Toplevel()) s = strports.service('tcp:8080', channel.HTTPFactory(site)) s.setServiceParent(application)