Okay, Camping 1.4 is out. gem install camping --source code.whytheluckystiff.net The only recent change is that the request body gets store in the @in variable as an open stream. It''s also okay to pass an IO object out of Camping. Lastly, Camping + Mongrel (SVN) now supports the X-Sendfile header. [1] Very swift and cool. _why [1] http://celebnamer.celebworld.ws/stuff/mod_xsendfile/