This whole get_content method is superfluous: std::rt::io::extensions::ReaderUtil.read_to_end() does exactly that, though as ~[u8] instead of ~str. (Given the response may not be UTF-8 encoded, this is the most sensible thing to do anyway. Correct encoding interpretation for at least HTML will come later; another—I can't remember who—is already developing at least part of it.)

mmh, I didn't know there's a read_to_end method. Thanks for pointing it out.

P.S: Don't assume I know everything about Rust, I'm still discovering things from the stdlib 😄