Hi, This is my first post to this list. I've been using Twisted for a few (like three) days. My wife had a baby two days ago, no, really. I just got the other two kids to bed and thought I'd ask...sorry if this has been answered eleven-thousand times before but I did search the archives first. I'm writing a client app that needs to get the contents of a URL, usually just a web page. I'm trying to use client.py's downloadPage(url, file, contextFactory=None, *args, **kwargs): It claims to use a 'file' which, according to the docstring, can be a file or file-like object. It uses the HTTPDownloader class to perform the actual download. In the pageEnd(): method of HTTPDownloader, the 'file' is closed. Unfortunately, for 'file-like' objects, like StringIOs, this trashes the 'file'; not so useful since I need to work with the result. I realize I can subclass and override and such but it seems odd that a function that is documented to use a file-like object uses a class that will destroy something that's not a 'file.' I'm sure I'm missing something...or maybe nobody uses this 'cause there's something way better that I haven't discovered yet. Clues? Thanks, S, AKA: Steve Steiner