diff --git a/.hgignore b/.hgignore
index f72e65867..48c9bb0d7 100644
--- a/.hgignore
+++ b/.hgignore
@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@ syntax: glob
 *.pyc
 *.db
 env
+.project
+.pydevproject
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..00c5e8b8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# To install django-rest-framework...
+#
+# Requirements:
+#   python2.6
+#   virtualenv
+
+hg clone https://tomchristie@bitbucket.org/tomchristie/django-rest-framework
+cd django-rest-framework/
+virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute --python=python2.6 env
+source ./env/bin/activate
+pip install -r ./requirements.txt
+python ./src/manage.py test
+
diff --git a/src/rest/resource.py b/src/rest/resource.py
index 7e4a6cd54..18421a19c 100644
--- a/src/rest/resource.py
+++ b/src/rest/resource.py
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ from rest import emitters, parsers
 
 class Resource(object):
 
+    class HTTPException(Exception):
+        def __init__(self, status, content, headers):
+            self.status = status
+            self.content = content
+            self.headers = headers
+
+    allowed_methods = ('GET',)
+
     callmap = { 'GET': 'read', 'POST': 'create', 
                 'PUT': 'update', 'DELETE': 'delete' }
 
@@ -17,6 +25,7 @@ class Resource(object):
                 'application/xml': parsers.XMLParser,
                 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded': parsers.FormParser }
 
+
     def __new__(cls, request, *args, **kwargs):
         self = object.__new__(cls)
         self.__init__()
@@ -28,7 +37,6 @@ class Resource(object):
     def _determine_parser(self, request):
         """Return the appropriate parser for the input, given the client's 'Content-Type' header,
         and the content types that this Resource knows how to parse."""
-        print request.META
         return self.parsers.values()[0]
     
         # TODO: Raise 415 Unsupported media type
@@ -79,25 +87,40 @@ class Resource(object):
                         (accept_mimetype == mimetype)):
                             return (mimetype, emitter)      
 
-        # TODO: Raise 406, Not Acceptable
+        raise self.HTTPException(406, {'status': 'Not Acceptable',
+                                       'accepts': ','.join(item[0] for item in self.emitters)}, {})
+
 
     def _handle_request(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
-        meth = request.method
+        method = request.method
+
+        try:
+            if not method in self.allowed_methods:
+                raise self.HTTPException(405, {'status': 'Method Not Allowed'}, {})
+    
+            # Parse the HTTP Request content
+            func = getattr(self, self.callmap.get(method, ''))
+    
+            if method in ('PUT', 'POST'):
+                parser = self._determine_parser(request)
+                data = parser(self, request).parse(request.raw_post_data)
+                (status, ret, headers) = func(data, request.META, *args, **kwargs)
+    
+            else:
+                (status, ret, headers) = func(request.META, *args, **kwargs)
+        except self.HTTPException, exc:
+            (status, ret, headers) = (exc.status, exc.content, exc.headers)
+
+        headers['Allow'] = ', '.join(self.allowed_methods)
         
-        # Parse the HTTP Request content
-        if meth in ('PUT', 'POST'):
-            parser = self._determine_parser(request)
-            data = parser(self, request).parse(request.raw_post_data)
-
-        if meth == "POST":
-            (status, ret, headers) = self.handle_post(data, request.META, *args, **kwargs)
-        else:
-            (status, ret, headers) = self.handle_get(request.META, *args, **kwargs)
-
         # Serialize the HTTP Response content
-        mimetype, emitter = self._determine_emitter(request)
+        try:        
+            mimetype, emitter = self._determine_emitter(request)
+        except self.HTTPException, exc:
+            (status, ret, headers) = (exc.status, exc.content, exc.headers)
+            mimetype, emitter = self.emitters[0]
+            
         content = emitter(self, status, headers).emit(ret)
-        print mimetype, emitter, content
 
         # Build the HTTP Response
         resp = HttpResponse(content, mimetype=mimetype, status=status)
@@ -106,8 +129,19 @@ class Resource(object):
 
         return resp
 
-    def handle_get(self):
-        raise NotImplementedError(self.handle_get)
+    def _not_implemented(self, operation):
+        resource_name = self.__class__.__name__
+        return (500, {'status': 'Internal Server Error',
+                          'detail': '%s %s operation is permitted but has not been implemented' % (resource_name, operation)}, {})
 
-    def handle_post(self):
-        raise NotImplementedError(self.handle_post)
\ No newline at end of file
+    def read(self, headers={}, *args, **kwargs):
+        return self._not_implemented('read')
+
+    def create(self, data=None, headers={}, *args, **kwargs):
+        return self._not_implemented('create')
+    
+    def update(self, data=None, headers={}, *args, **kwargs):
+        return self._not_implemented('update')
+
+    def delete(self, headers={}, *args, **kwargs):
+        return self._not_implemented('delete')
diff --git a/src/testarchive/templates/emitter.html b/src/rest/templates/emitter.html
similarity index 100%
rename from src/testarchive/templates/emitter.html
rename to src/rest/templates/emitter.html
diff --git a/src/testarchive/templates/emitter.txt b/src/rest/templates/emitter.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from src/testarchive/templates/emitter.txt
rename to src/rest/templates/emitter.txt
diff --git a/src/testarchive/templates/emitter.xhtml b/src/rest/templates/emitter.xhtml
similarity index 100%
rename from src/testarchive/templates/emitter.xhtml
rename to src/rest/templates/emitter.xhtml
diff --git a/src/settings.py b/src/settings.py
index 2a55c76a9..fa3476dbb 100644
--- a/src/settings.py
+++ b/src/settings.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
     'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
 )
 
-ROOT_URLCONF = 'src.urls'
+ROOT_URLCONF = 'urls'
 
 TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
     # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
@@ -93,5 +93,6 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'django.contrib.admin',
     # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
     # 'django.contrib.admindocs',
-    'testarchive',
+    'testapp',
+    'rest',
 )
diff --git a/src/testarchive/__init__.py b/src/testapp/__init__.py
similarity index 100%
rename from src/testarchive/__init__.py
rename to src/testapp/__init__.py
diff --git a/src/testarchive/models.py b/src/testapp/models.py
similarity index 100%
rename from src/testarchive/models.py
rename to src/testapp/models.py
diff --git a/src/testapp/tests.py b/src/testapp/tests.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5543cd966
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/testapp/tests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+"""
+This file demonstrates two different styles of tests (one doctest and one
+unittest). These will both pass when you run "manage.py test".
+
+Replace these with more appropriate tests for your application.
+"""
+
+from django.test import TestCase
+from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
+from testapp.views import ReadOnlyResource, MirroringWriteResource
+
+class AcceptHeaderTests(TestCase):
+    def assert_accept_mimetype(self, mimetype, expect=None, expect_match=True):
+        """
+        Assert that a request with given mimetype in the accept header,
+        gives a response with the appropriate content-type.
+        """
+        if expect is None:
+            expect = mimetype
+
+        resp = self.client.get(reverse(ReadOnlyResource), HTTP_ACCEPT=mimetype)
+
+        if expect_match:
+            self.assertEquals(resp['content-type'], expect)
+        else:
+            self.assertNotEquals(resp['content-type'], expect)
+
+    def test_accept_xml(self):
+        self.assert_accept_mimetype('application/xml')
+
+    def test_accept_json(self):
+        self.assert_accept_mimetype('application/json')
+
+    def test_accept_xml_prefered_to_json(self):
+        self.assert_accept_mimetype('application/xml,q=0.9;application/json,q=0.1', expect='application/xml')
+
+    def test_accept_json_prefered_to_xml(self):
+        self.assert_accept_mimetype('application/json,q=0.9;application/xml,q=0.1', expect='application/json')
+
+    def test_dont_accept_invalid(self):
+        self.assert_accept_mimetype('application/invalid', expect_match=False)
+
+    def test_invalid_accept_header_returns_406(self):
+        resp = self.client.get(reverse(ReadOnlyResource), HTTP_ACCEPT='invalid/invalid')
+        self.assertEquals(resp.status_code, 406)
+
+class AllowedMethodsTests(TestCase):
+    def test_write_on_read_only_resource_returns_405(self):
+        resp = self.client.put(reverse(ReadOnlyResource), {})
+        self.assertEquals(resp.status_code, 405)
+
+    def test_read_on_write_only_resource_returns_405(self):
+        resp = self.client.get(reverse(MirroringWriteResource))
+        self.assertEquals(resp.status_code, 405)
diff --git a/src/testapp/urls.py b/src/testapp/urls.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a41c156bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/testapp/urls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns
+from testapp.views import ReadOnlyResource, MirroringWriteResource
+
+
+urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    (r'^read-only$', ReadOnlyResource),
+    (r'^mirroring-write$', MirroringWriteResource),
+)
diff --git a/src/testapp/views.py b/src/testapp/views.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f0174414b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/testapp/views.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+from decimal import Decimal
+from rest.resource import Resource
+
+class ReadOnlyResource(Resource):
+    """This is my docstring
+    """
+    allowed_methods = ('GET',)
+
+    def read(self, headers={}, *args, **kwargs):
+        return (200, {'ExampleString': 'Example',
+                      'ExampleInt': 1,
+                      'ExampleDecimal': 1.0}, {})
+
+
+class MirroringWriteResource(Resource):
+    """This is my docstring
+    """
+    allowed_methods = ('PUT',)
+
+    def create(self, data, headers={}, *args, **kwargs):
+        return (200, data, {})
diff --git a/src/testarchive/tests.py b/src/testarchive/tests.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 2aaf1bab8..000000000
--- a/src/testarchive/tests.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-"""
-This file demonstrates two different styles of tests (one doctest and one
-unittest). These will both pass when you run "manage.py test".
-
-Replace these with more appropriate tests for your application.
-"""
-
-from django.test import TestCase
-
-class SimpleTest(TestCase):
-    def test_basic_addition(self):
-        """
-        Tests that 1 + 1 always equals 2.
-        """
-        self.failUnlessEqual(1 + 1, 3)
-
-__test__ = {"doctest": """
-Another way to test that 1 + 1 is equal to 2.
-
->>> 1 + 1 == 2
-True
-"""}
-
diff --git a/src/testarchive/urls.py b/src/testarchive/urls.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 81aa0fa83..000000000
--- a/src/testarchive/urls.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns
-from testarchive.views import RootResource
-
-
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^$', RootResource),
-)
diff --git a/src/testarchive/views.py b/src/testarchive/views.py
deleted file mode 100644
index a7812dc34..000000000
--- a/src/testarchive/views.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-from rest.resource import Resource
-
-class RootResource(Resource):
-    """This is my docstring
-    """
-
-    def handle_get(self, headers={}, *args, **kwargs):
-        return (200, {'Name': 'Test', 'Value': 1}, {'Location': 'BLAH'})
diff --git a/src/urls.py b/src/urls.py
index f6c598ce6..f95e9afa4 100644
--- a/src/urls.py
+++ b/src/urls.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ admin.autodiscover()
 
 urlpatterns = patterns('',
     # Example:
-    (r'^testarchive/', include('testarchive.urls')),
+    (r'^testapp/', include('testapp.urls')),
 
     # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
     (r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),