The Reggae class http.stream is not a new one, but it is "backported" now to use the current Reggae API. The purpose of the class is to fetch a resource (file) via HTTP protocol. It can be some media file to be decoded later by Reggae, but it need not to. You can perfectly use http.stream just to fetch some file in your application, without diving into bsdsocket API mud and HTTP internals. Just three lines and your data are in memory. Because of Reggae modularity, there is no big overhead, you shouldn't think "Well, it is no good to use the whole Reggae just for one class". http.stream provides you HTTP/1.1 compatibility, HTTP proxy support, chunked transfer support. You have access to HTTP response header if needed. The class is available via MorphUp or from Reggae homepage (note that LhA archive does not contain updated header files, so it is targetted at users, not developers, MorphUp is the preferred way).