Hi, I have yet another question... a producer has to learn about it's consumer somehow, otherwise it would not know where to write it's data to. But the proposed interface is exactly vice versa: the IConsumer interface has a registerProducer() method. Now, that would be fine, if that did all the setup between a producer and a consumer. But AFACIS in the twisted code, registerProducer() does not link itself with the producer. Instead, the producers I've inspected (i.e. FileSender) require an explicit initialization with a given consumer. Why is that? What's the best way to associate a producer with a consumer? Is something like the following okay: def associateProducerConsumer(prod, cons): prod.consumer = cons cons.registerProducer(prod, ISeekableProducer.providedBy(prod)) Regards Markus