(sorry if it was already described somewhere, but 15 mins of googling did not help me) In one of the recent posts (http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2006-November/014374.html) I noticed the following sentence:

In general you don't need actual network connections to test protocols. For example, there are helpers in twisted.test.proto_helpers for mimicking a transport.

How should those be used? Not much docs inside... To give a simple example, imagine I have some factory which provides something over HTTP. And I have test case which setup this server on loopback address, connects to it using HTTP, and analyses whether correct output was received. Is it possible to refactor such test, so it does not create any true TCP connection?