I think the patch below fixes a typo in an error case I noticed while reading the code. -wsv Index: twisted/web2/static.py =================================================================== --- twisted/web2/static.py (revision 14048) +++ twisted/web2/static.py (working copy) @@ -215,7 +217,7 @@ self.defaultType) if not self.fp.exists(): - return response.NOT_FOUND + return responsecode.NOT_FOUND if self.fp.isdir(): # If this is a directory, redirect