diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index a37827cf3..acc67da92 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 source 'http://rubygems.org'
 
 gem 'rails', '3.0.0.beta4'
-
+gem 'mongrel'
+gem 'thin'
+gem 'em-http-request'
+gem 'addressable'
 gem "mongoid", :git => "http://github.com/durran/mongoid.git"
 gem "bson_ext", "1.0.1"
 gem "haml"
diff --git a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
index f2569b3a7..958d7a9e2 100644
--- a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
   protect_from_forgery
   layout 'application'
+
+  def receive
+    puts response.inspect
+    puts "holy boner batman"
+  end
+
 end
diff --git a/app/models/post.rb b/app/models/post.rb
index e4f4eb175..6375cbe84 100644
--- a/app/models/post.rb
+++ b/app/models/post.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 class Post 
+  require 'lib/common'
 
   # XML accessors must always preceed mongo field tags
 
@@ -6,6 +7,8 @@ class Post
   include Mongoid::Timestamps
   include ROXML
 
+  include Diaspora::Hookey
+
   xml_accessor :owner
   xml_accessor :snippet
   xml_accessor :source
diff --git a/app/models/status_message.rb b/app/models/status_message.rb
index 4aec011e6..b9eb2c4fc 100644
--- a/app/models/status_message.rb
+++ b/app/models/status_message.rb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ class StatusMessage < Post
   end
 
   def self.retrieve_from_friend(friend)
-    StatusMessages.from_xml Curl.curl(friend.url+"status_messages.xml")
+    StatusMessages.from_xml Curl.get(friend.url+"status_messages.xml")
   end
 
   def ==(other)
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 81cd16e47..f1466709a 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ Diaspora::Application.routes.draw do |map|
    match 'login', :to => 'devise/sessions#new', :as => "new_user_session"
    match 'logout', :to  => 'devise/sessions#destroy', :as => "destroy_user_session"
    match 'signup', :to => 'devise/registrations#new', :as => "new_user_registration"
-  
+ 
+  match 'receive', :to => 'application#receive'
 
   resources :users
   resources :status_messages
diff --git a/lib/common.rb b/lib/common.rb
index a89072fc5..312d7f773 100644
--- a/lib/common.rb
+++ b/lib/common.rb
@@ -1,18 +1,61 @@
-module CommonField
+module Diaspora
+  module CommonFields
+    def self.included(klass)
+      klass.class_eval do
+        include Mongoid::Document
+        include ROXML
+        include Mongoid::Timestamps
 
-  def self.included(klass)
-    klass.class_eval do
-      include Mongoid::Document
-      include ROXML
-      include Mongoid::Timestamps
+        xml_accessor :owner
+        xml_accessor :snippet
+        xml_accessor :source
 
-      xml_accessor :owner
-      xml_accessor :snippet
-      xml_accessor :source
+        field :owner
+        field :source
+        field :snippet
+      end
+    end
+  end
 
-      field :owner
-      field :source
-      field :snippet
+  module Hookey
+
+class Curl
+  def self.post(s)
+    `curl -X POST -d #{s}`;;
+  end
+  
+  def self.get(s)
+    `curl -X GET #{s}`
+  end
+end
+
+
+    def self.included(klass)
+      
+      klass.class_eval do
+        require 'lib/message_handler'
+        before_save :notify_friends
+        
+        def notify_friends
+          m = MessageHandler.new
+
+          xml = prep_webhook
+          #friends_with_permissions.each{ |friend| puts friend; Curl.post( "\"" + xml + "\" " + friend) }
+          m.add_post_request( friends_with_permissions, xml )
+          m.process
+        end
+        
+        def prep_webhook  
+          self.to_xml.to_s.chomp
+        end
+        
+        def friends_with_permissions
+           #Friend.only(:url).map{|x| x = x.url + "/receive/"}
+           googles = []
+           5.times{ googles <<"http://google.com/"} #"http://localhost:4567/receive/"} #"http://google.com/"}
+           googles
+        end
+      end
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/message_handler.rb b/lib/message_handler.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8ef7594fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/message_handler.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+  require 'em-http'
+  require 'eventmachine'
+  require 'addressable/uri'
+  
+  class MessageHandler 
+
+  
+  NUM_TRIES = 3
+  TIMEOUT = 5 #seconds
+    
+  def initialize
+    @queue = EM::Queue.new
+  end
+
+  def add_get_request(destinations)
+    destinations.each{ |dest| @queue.push(Message.new(:get, dest))}
+  end
+
+
+  def add_post_request(destinations, body)
+    destinations.each{|dest| @queue.push(Message.new(:post, dest, body))}
+  end
+
+  def process
+    @queue.pop{ |query|
+      case query.type
+      when :post
+        http = EventMachine::HttpRequest.new(query.destination).post :timeout => TIMEOUT, :body =>query.body
+        http.callback { process}
+      when :get
+        http = EventMachine::HttpRequest.new(query.destination).get :timeout => TIMEOUT
+        http.callback {send_to_seed(query, http.response); process}
+      else
+        raise "message is not a type I know!"
+      end
+      
+      http.errback {
+        query.try_count +=1
+        @queue.push query unless query.try_count >= NUM_TRIES 
+        process
+      }
+    } unless @queue.size == 0
+  end
+
+
+  def send_to_seed(message, http_response)
+    #DO SOMETHING!
+  end
+
+  def size
+    @queue.size
+  end
+
+  class Message
+    attr_accessor :type, :destination, :body, :try_count
+    def initialize(type, dest, body= nil)
+      @type = type
+      @destination = dest
+      @body = body
+      @try_count = 0
+    end
+  end
+end
+
diff --git a/lib/net/curl.rb b/lib/net/curl.rb
index 410255146..4220a27f7 100644
--- a/lib/net/curl.rb
+++ b/lib/net/curl.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 class Curl
-  def self.curl(s)
-    `curl #{s}`
+  def self.post(s)
+    `curl -X POST -d #{s}`;;
+  end
+  
+  def self.get(s)
+    `curl -X GET #{s}`
   end
 end