diff --git a/leisure/__init__.py b/leisure/__init__.py
index 015410c..e809c84 100644
--- a/leisure/__init__.py
+++ b/leisure/__init__.py
@@ -35,7 +35,11 @@ import tempfile
 
 def main():
   script = sys.argv[1]
-  run_script(script, tempfile.mkdtemp())
+  if len(sys.argv) == 3:
+    data_root = sys.argv[2]
+  else:
+    data_root = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+  run_script(script, data_root)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/leisure/disco.py b/leisure/disco.py
index eab0823..e9a9ad5 100644
--- a/leisure/disco.py
+++ b/leisure/disco.py
@@ -17,18 +17,25 @@ from disco.core import Disco
 from .io import puts
 from .   import event_loop
 from .   import job_control
+from .   import server
 
 disco_url_regex = re.compile(".*?://.*?/disco/(.*)")
+preferred_host_re = re.compile("^[a-zA-Z0-9]+://([^/:]*)") 
 
 def run_script(script, data_root):
   loop = start_event_loop()
   job_control.set_event_loop(loop)
   try:
     patch_disco()
+    host,port = server.start(loop)
 
     os.environ['DISCO_HOME'] = disco.__path__[0]
     os.environ['DISCO_DATA'] = data_root
 
+    os.environ['DISCO_PORT'] = str(port)
+    os.environ['DDFS_PUT_PORT'] = str(port)
+
+
     globals_ = {
       "__name__" : "__main__",
       "__file__" : script,
@@ -123,6 +130,12 @@ def hex_hash(path):
 
   return hashlib.md5(path).hexdigest()[:2]
 
+def preferred_host(url):
+
+  m = preferred_host_re.search(url)
+  if m:
+    return m.group(1)
+
 
 def timestamp(dt=None):
   """
diff --git a/leisure/event_emmiter.py b/leisure/event_emmiter.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..616e4d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/leisure/event_emmiter.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+from collections import defaultdict
+class EventEmmiter(object):
+
+  def on(self, event, callback, *args):
+    if not hasattr(self, "_callbacks"):
+      self._callbacks = defaultdict(list)
+
+    self._callbacks[event].append((callback, args))
+    return self
+
+  def fire(self, event, sender):
+    for callback, args in self._callbacks[event]:
+      callback(sender, *args)
+
+ 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/leisure/event_loop.py b/leisure/event_loop.py
index b683565..a77bca4 100644
--- a/leisure/event_loop.py
+++ b/leisure/event_loop.py
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ def add_reader(fd, callback, *args):
 def remove_reader(fd):
   current_event_loop().remove_reader(fd)
 
+def run():
+  current_event_loop().run()
+
 
 def fileno(fd):
   if isinstance(fd, int):
diff --git a/leisure/job.py b/leisure/job.py
index 2f67eec..0baa818 100644
--- a/leisure/job.py
+++ b/leisure/job.py
@@ -57,11 +57,16 @@ class Job(object):
   def jobfile_path(self):
     return os.path.join(self.job_dir, "jobfile")
 
+  @property
+  def nr_reduces(self):
+    return self.jobpack.jobdict['nr_reduces']
+    
   @property
   def has_map_phase(self):
     """Return true if the job has a map phase"""
     return self.jobpack.jobdict['map?']
 
+
   @property
   def has_reduce_phase(self):
     """Return true if the job has a map phase"""
diff --git a/leisure/job_control.py b/leisure/job_control.py
index eb5fe53..aa5f729 100644
--- a/leisure/job_control.py
+++ b/leisure/job_control.py
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ def map_reduce(job):
     return reduce(inputs, job, _finished)
 
   def _finished(results):
+    job.results.extend(results)
     job.status = "ready"
 
   map(job.inputs, job, _reduce)
@@ -68,18 +69,47 @@ def map(inputs, job, cb):
     return run_phase(map_inputs(inputs), "map", job, cb)
 
 def map_inputs(inputs):
+  # preferred_host = leisure.disco.preferred_host
+  # def case(input):
+  #   if isinstance(input, list):
+  #     return [ (i, preferred_host(input)) for i in input ]
+  #   else:
+  #     return [(input, preferred_host(input))]
+
+  # return list(enumerate([ case(input) for input in inputs ]))
+
+
   if not hasattr(inputs, '__iter__'):
     inputs = [inputs]
 
   return inputs
 
 def reduce(inputs, job, cb):
-
+  
   if not job.has_reduce_phase:
     return event_loop.call_soon(cb, inputs)
   else:
-    return run_phase(map_inputs(inputs), "reduce", job, cb)
+    return run_phase(reduce_inputs(inputs, job.nr_reduces), "reduce", job, cb)
 
+def reduce_inputs(inputs, n_red):
+  return inputs
+  hosts = usort([ 
+    leisure.disco.preferred_host(input)
+    for input in inputs
+  ])
+
+  num_hosts = len(hosts)
+  if num_hosts == 0:
+    return []
+  else:
+    hosts_d = dict(enumerate(hosts))
+    return [
+      (task_id, [(inputs, hosts_d[task_id % n_red])])
+      for task_id in range(num_hosts) 
+    ]
+
+def usort(inputs):
+  return sorted(set(inputs))
 
 def results(job, mode, local_results, global_results, **state):
 
@@ -106,12 +136,11 @@ def run_phase(inputs, mode, job, cb):
     outstanding    = len(inputs),
     local_results  = [],
     global_results = []
-    #task_results = {}
   )
 
   for id, input in enumerate(inputs):
     task = Task(id, job, input, mode)
-    task.on('done', on_task_done,  task, state)
+    task.on('done', on_task_done,  state)
     worker.start(task)
 
 def on_task_done(task, state):
diff --git a/leisure/send_file.py b/leisure/send_file.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75d09ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/leisure/send_file.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import mimetypes
+import os
+import re
+
+from flask import request, send_file, Response
+
+
+
+def send_file_partial(path):
+    """ 
+        Simple wrapper around send_file which handles HTTP 206 Partial Content
+        (byte ranges)
+        TODO: handle all send_file args, mirror send_file's error handling
+        (if it has any)
+    """
+
+    range_header = request.headers.get('Range', None)
+    if not range_header: return send_file(path)
+    
+    size = os.path.getsize(path)    
+    byte1, byte2 = 0, None
+    
+    m = re.search('(\d+)-(\d*)', range_header)
+    g = m.groups()
+    
+    if g[0]: byte1 = int(g[0])
+    if g[1]: byte2 = int(g[1])
+
+    byte2 = min(size, byte2)
+
+    #if byte1 == byte2:
+    #    import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
+
+    length = size - byte1
+    if byte2 is not None:
+        length = byte2 - byte1
+    
+    data = None
+    with open(path, 'rb') as f:
+        f.seek(byte1)
+        data = f.read(length)
+
+    rv = Response(data, 
+        206,
+        mimetype="application/octet-stream",#mimetypes.guess_type(path)[0], 
+        direct_passthrough=True)
+    rv.headers.add('Content-Range', 'bytes {0}-{1}/{2}'.format(byte1, byte1 + length - 1, size))
+
+    return rv
diff --git a/leisure/server.py b/leisure/server.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78855bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/leisure/server.py
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+from http_parser.pyparser import HttpParser
+
+from .io import puts, indent
+from .transports import Socket
+
+
+import os
+import leisure
+
+def start(event_loop):
+  socket = Socket(("localhost", 0))
+  socket.on("accept", new_connection)
+  addr = socket.listen(5, event_loop)
+  puts("{}".format(addr))
+  return addr
+
+def new_connection(client):
+  parser =HttpParser(kind=0)
+  parser.environ = True
+
+  client.on(
+    "data", on_read, parser , client
+  ).on(
+    "error", on_error, client
+  )
+
+def on_read(data, parser, client):
+  parser.execute(data.tobytes(), len(data))
+  if parser.is_headers_complete():
+    env = parser.get_wsgi_environ()
+    dispatch(env, client)
+
+def on_error(exce, client):
+  print exce
+
+def dispatch(env, client):
+  sock = client._socket
+
+  out = bytearray()
+
+  def start_response(status, response_headers, exc_info=None):
+    out.extend("HTTP/1.1 ")
+    out.extend(status)
+    out.extend("\r\n")
+
+    for header, value in response_headers:
+      out.extend("{}: {}\r\n".format(header, value))
+
+    out.extend("\r\n")
+
+    return sock.send
+
+
+  headers_sent = False
+  sent = 0
+  app_iter = app.wsgi_app(env, start_response)
+
+
+  try:
+    for data in app_iter:
+      if not headers_sent:
+        #puts(out),
+        sock.send(out)
+        headers_sent = True
+
+      sock.send(data)
+      sent += len(data)
+  finally:
+    if hasattr(app_iter, 'close'):
+      app_iter.close()
+
+  client.close()
+
+
+from flask import Flask, request, Response, abort
+from .send_file import send_file_partial
+
+app = Flask(__name__)
+app.debug = True
+
+@app.after_request
+def after_request(response):
+  response.headers.add('Accept-Ranges', 'bytes')
+  return response
+
+
+@app.route('/')
+def hello_world():
+  return "hello"
+  
+
+@app.route('/disco/<path:path>')
+def disco(path):
+  if '..' in path or path.startswith('/'):
+    abort(404)
+
+  puts(request.url)
+  real_path = os.path.join(os.environ['DISCO_DATA'], path)
+  return send_file_partial(real_path)
+
+
+  
+
+
+
diff --git a/leisure/shuffle.py b/leisure/shuffle.py
index f2c2fa1..ce321d1 100644
--- a/leisure/shuffle.py
+++ b/leisure/shuffle.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import os
+from gzip import GzipFile
 from itertools import groupby, chain
 
 from . import disco
@@ -76,8 +77,8 @@ def write_index(filename, lines):
   
 
   tmp_path = "{}-{}".format(filename, disco.timestamp())
-
-  output = open(tmp_path, 'w')
+  output = GzipFile(tmp_path, 'w')
+  #output = open(tmp_path, 'w')
   output.writelines(lines)
   output.close()
   os.rename(tmp_path, filename)
diff --git a/leisure/task.py b/leisure/task.py
index 49fe9ee..c14b7ec 100644
--- a/leisure/task.py
+++ b/leisure/task.py
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 import os
 import time
-from collections import defaultdict
 
 from .path import ensure_dir
+from .event_emmiter import EventEmmiter
 import leisure
 
 
-class Task(object):
+class Task(EventEmmiter):
   def __init__(self, id, job, input, mode):
     self.id = id
     self.job = job
@@ -16,34 +16,30 @@ class Task(object):
     self.output_file_name = None
     self.output_file = None
     self.host ="localhost"
-    self.callbacks = defaultdict(list)
 
-  def on(self, event, callback, *args):
-    self.callbacks[event].append((callback, args))
+    self.disco_port = int(os.environ['DISCO_PORT'])
+    self.put_port = int(os.environ['DDFS_PUT_PORT'])
 
-  def fire(self, event):
-    for callback, args in self.callbacks[event]:
-      callback(*args)
 
   def done(self):
     if self.output_file:
       self.output_file.close()
 
-    self.fire('done')
+    self.fire('done', self)
 
   def info(self):
     path = self.job.job_dir
     return dict(
       host       = self.host,
-      disco_data = os.path.join(path, "data"),
-      ddfs_data  = os.path.join(path, "ddfs"),
-      master     = "http://localhost:8989",
+      disco_data = os.environ['DISCO_DATA'],
+      ddfs_data  = os.path.join(os.environ['DISCO_DATA'], "ddfs"),
+      master     = "http://localhost:{}".format(self.disco_port),
       taskid     = self.id,
       jobfile    = self.job.jobfile_path, 
       mode       = self.mode, 
       jobname    = self.job.name, 
-      disco_port = 8989,
-      put_port   = 8990
+      disco_port = self.disco_port,
+      put_port   = self.put_port
     )
 
   @property
diff --git a/leisure/transports.py b/leisure/transports.py
index 3a3a2a5..1cbba1b 100644
--- a/leisure/transports.py
+++ b/leisure/transports.py
@@ -1,5 +1,112 @@
 import fcntl
 import os
+import socket
+import errno
+
+from .event_emmiter import EventEmmiter
+class Socket(EventEmmiter):
+  def __init__(self,address, delegate=None):
+    self.address = address
+    self.delegate = delegate
+    self.event_loop = None
+
+  def listen(self,  backlog, event_loop = None):
+    """Listen for incoming connections on this port.
+
+     backlog - the maximum number of queued connectinos
+
+     runLoop - the runLoop that will monitor this port for
+               incomming connections. Defaults to the
+               currentRunLoop if none is specified.  
+    """
+
+    if type(self.address) == tuple:
+      serversocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
+      socket_path = None
+    else:
+      socket_path = self.address
+      serversocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
+
+      if os.path.exists(socket_path):
+        # possible stale socket let's see if any one is listning
+        err = serversocket.connect_ex(socket_path)
+        if err == errno.ECONNREFUSED:
+          os.unlink(socket_path)
+        else:
+          serversocket._reset()
+          raise RuntimeError("Socket path %s is in use" % socket_path )
+
+
+    serversocket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
+    serversocket.bind(self.address)
+
+    if socket_path: # ensure the world can read/write this socket
+      os.chmod(socket_path, 666)
+
+    serversocket.listen(backlog)
+    serversocket.setblocking(0)
+
+    self._socket = serversocket
+    self.listening = True
+    self.connected = True
+
+    if event_loop is None:
+      event_loop = current_event_loop()
+
+    event_loop.add_reader(self._socket, self.new_connection, self._socket)
+    self.event_loop = event_loop
+    return self._socket.getsockname()
+
+  def new_connection(self, srv_socket):
+    client, addr = srv_socket.accept()
+    new_socket = Socket(addr, self.delegate)
+    new_socket.connection_accepted(client, self.event_loop)
+    self.fire("accept", new_socket)
+
+  def connection_accepted(self, socket, event_loop):
+    self._socket = socket
+    self.event_loop = event_loop
+    self.connected = True
+    self.event_loop.add_reader(socket, self.can_read, socket)
+
+  def close(self):
+    if self._socket:
+      self.event_loop.remove_reader(self._socket)
+      self._socket = None
+      self.fire('closed', self)
+
+
+  def can_read(self, client):
+
+    while True:
+      try:
+        buf = bytearray(4096)
+        mem = memoryview(buf)
+        bytes = client.recv_into(buf)
+        if bytes > 0:
+          self.fire('data', mem[:bytes])
+        else:
+          self.close()
+
+
+      except socket.error,e:
+        if e[0] in (errno.EWOULDBLOCK, errno.EAGAIN):
+          # other end of the socket is full, so
+          # ask the runLoop when we can send more
+          # data
+
+          break
+        else:
+          import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
+          # if we receive any other socket
+          # error we close the connection
+          # and raise and notify our delegate
+
+          #self._reset()
+          #self.delegate.onError(self, e)
+          self.fire('error', e)
+          self.event_loop.remove_reader(client)
+
 
 class Stream(object):
   def __init__(self, fd, delegate=None):
diff --git a/leisure/worker.py b/leisure/worker.py
index 6f14dc6..8aaab24 100644
--- a/leisure/worker.py
+++ b/leisure/worker.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def response(proc, task, packet):
   elif type == 'MSG':
     puts(payload)
     return msg("OK","")
-  elif type == ('ERROR','FATAL'):
+  elif type in ('ERROR','FATAL'):
     # todo: fail, the task
     task.job.status = "dead"
     done(proc)
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def response(proc, task, packet):
     return msg('TASK',task.info())
 
   elif type == "INPUT":
-     return msg('INPUT', [
+    return msg('INPUT', [
       u'done', [
         [0, u'ok', [[0, task.input]]]
       ]
@@ -113,4 +113,4 @@ def response(proc, task, packet):
     task.done()
     return done(proc)
   else:
-    pass
+    raise RuntimeError("Uknown message type '' received".format(type))
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a35219c..eb7f682 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 git+https://github.com/trivio/disco.git#egg=disco
+http-parser
+Flask
diff --git a/sample_jobs/word_count.py b/sample_jobs/word_count.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15556d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sample_jobs/word_count.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+from disco.core import Job, result_iterator
+
+def map(line, params):
+    for word in line.split():
+        yield word, 1
+
+def reduce(iter, params):
+    from disco.util import kvgroup
+    for word, counts in kvgroup(sorted(iter)):
+        yield word, sum(counts)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print "runnning job"
+    job = Job().run(input=["http://discoproject.org/media/text/chekhov.txt"],
+                    map=map,
+                    reduce=reduce)
+    for word, count in result_iterator(job.wait(show=True)):
+        #print(word, count)
+        pass
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ff56b7e..f750bec 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ except IOError:
 setup(
   name='leisure',
   py_modules = ['leisure'],
-  version='0.0.1',
+  version='0.0.2',
   description='local job runner for disco',
   long_description=README,
   author='Scott Robertson',
diff --git a/tests/test_server.py b/tests/test_server.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b643244
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_server.py
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+import sys
+import os
+from unittest import TestCase
+from nose.tools import eq_
+import shutil
+import tempfile
+import threading
+
+import requests
+
+from leisure import server, event_loop
+import logging
+logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stderr)
+
+from StringIO import StringIO
+import gzip
+
+
+class TestServer(object):
+  def setUp(self):
+    self.data_root = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+    os.environ['DISCO_DATA'] = self.data_root
+    self.event_loop = event_loop
+    self.event_loop.call_later(2, lambda: event_loop.stop())
+
+  def tearDown(self):
+    shutil.rmtree(self.data_root)
+
+  def request(self, method, path=''):
+    loop = event_loop.current_event_loop()
+    context = []
+    def fetch_data(addr):
+      def _(): # requests is blocking so needs it's own thread
+
+        url = "http://{1}:{2}/{0}".format(path, *addr)
+        #import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
+        context.append( requests.get(url, timeout=3))
+        loop.stop()
+      t = threading.Thread(target=_)
+      t.daemon = True
+      t.start()
+
+    addr = server.start(event_loop)
+    self.event_loop.call_soon(fetch_data, addr)
+    self.event_loop.run()
+    return context.pop()
+
+  def get(self, path=''):
+    return self.request('GET', path)
+
+
+  def test_get_compressed(self):
+    content = "line 1\nline 2\n" * 1024**2
+    index = gzip.GzipFile(os.path.join(self.data_root, 'index.gz'), 'w')
+    index.write(content)
+    index.close()
+
+    resp = self.get("disco/index.gz")
+
+    data = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO(resp.content)).read()
+
+    eq_(data, content)
+
+
diff --git a/tests/test_shuffle.py b/tests/test_shuffle.py
index fdf1e78..27e6148 100644
--- a/tests/test_shuffle.py
+++ b/tests/test_shuffle.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from unittest import TestCase
 from nose.tools import eq_
 import tempfile
 import shutil
+import gzip
 
 from leisure import shuffle, disco
 from leisure.path import makedirs
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ class TestShuffle(TestCase):
     shutil.rmtree(self.data_root)
 
   def make_part_info(self, job_home):
-    part_dir = "partitions-{}".format(shuffle.timestamp())
+    part_dir = "partitions-{}".format(disco.timestamp())
     part_path = os.path.join(
       job_home,
       part_dir
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ class TestShuffle(TestCase):
     filename = os.path.join(self.data_root, "blah")
     shuffle.write_index(filename, index)
 
-    read_lines = open(filename).readlines()
+    read_lines = gzip.GzipFile(filename).readlines()
     self.assertSequenceEqual(index, read_lines)
 
   def test_process_url_non_local(self): 
@@ -226,7 +227,5 @@ class TestShuffle(TestCase):
       mode="map", 
       task_results=task_results
     ))
-    import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
-    pass