diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 08442000..b2c658bb 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
     "tsc": "^2.0.4",
     "undici": "^6.18.2",
     "uuid": "8.3.2",
-    "warcio": "^2.3.0",
+    "warcio": "^2.3.1",
     "ws": "^7.4.4",
     "yargs": "^17.7.2"
   },
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
     "testTimeout": 90000
   },
   "resolutions": {
-    "wrap-ansi": "7.0.0"
+    "wrap-ansi": "7.0.0",
+    "warcio": "^2.3.1"
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/crawler.ts b/src/crawler.ts
index 12f0fe03..8417efb4 100644
--- a/src/crawler.ts
+++ b/src/crawler.ts
@@ -156,7 +156,6 @@ export class Crawler {
   otherPagesFile: string;
 
   archivesDir: string;
-  tempdir: string;
   warcCdxDir: string;
   indexesDir: string;
 
@@ -295,7 +294,6 @@ export class Crawler {
 
     // archives dir
     this.archivesDir = path.join(this.collDir, "archive");
-    this.tempdir = path.join(os.tmpdir(), "tmp-dl");
 
     // indexes dirs
     this.warcCdxDir = path.join(this.collDir, "warc-cdx");
@@ -480,7 +478,6 @@ export class Crawler {
 
     if (!this.params.dryRun) {
       await fsp.mkdir(this.archivesDir, { recursive: true });
-      await fsp.mkdir(this.tempdir, { recursive: true });
       await fsp.mkdir(this.warcCdxDir, { recursive: true });
     }
 
@@ -2581,7 +2578,6 @@ self.__bx_behaviors.selectMainBehavior();
       workerid: id,
       crawler: this,
       writer,
-      tempdir: this.tempdir,
     });
 
     this.browser.recorders.push(res);
diff --git a/src/util/recorder.ts b/src/util/recorder.ts
index e391894f..766bdcaf 100644
--- a/src/util/recorder.ts
+++ b/src/util/recorder.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
-import path from "path";
-
-import { v4 as uuidv4 } from "uuid";
-
 import PQueue from "p-queue";
 
 import { logger, formatErr } from "./logger.js";
-import { sleep, timedRun, timestampNow } from "./timing.js";
+import { sleep, timedRun } from "./timing.js";
 import {
   RequestResponseInfo,
   isHTMLMime,
@@ -142,8 +138,6 @@ export class Recorder {
   logDetails: Record<string, any> = {};
   skipping = false;
 
-  tempdir: string;
-
   gzip = true;
 
   writer: WARCWriter;
@@ -157,12 +151,10 @@ export class Recorder {
     workerid,
     writer,
     crawler,
-    tempdir,
   }: {
     workerid: WorkerId;
     writer: WARCWriter;
     crawler: Crawler;
-    tempdir: string;
   }) {
     this.workerid = workerid;
     this.crawler = crawler;
@@ -170,8 +162,6 @@ export class Recorder {
 
     this.writer = writer;
 
-    this.tempdir = tempdir;
-
     this.fetcherQ = new PQueue({ concurrency: 1 });
 
     this.frameIdToExecId = null;
@@ -1274,9 +1264,6 @@ class AsyncFetcher {
 
   recorder: Recorder;
 
-  tempdir: string;
-  filename: string;
-
   manualRedirect = false;
 
   constructor({
@@ -1299,19 +1286,13 @@ class AsyncFetcher {
 
     this.recorder = recorder;
 
-    this.tempdir = recorder.tempdir;
-    this.filename = path.join(
-      this.tempdir,
-      `${timestampNow()}-${uuidv4()}.data`,
-    );
-
     this.maxFetchSize = maxFetchSize;
 
     this.manualRedirect = manualRedirect;
   }
 
   async load() {
-    const { reqresp, recorder, networkId, filename } = this;
+    const { reqresp, recorder, networkId } = this;
     const { url, status } = reqresp;
 
     const { pageid, crawlState, gzip, logDetails } = recorder;
@@ -1361,7 +1342,7 @@ class AsyncFetcher {
       } catch (e) {
         logger.error(
           "Error reading + digesting payload",
-          { url, filename, ...formatErr(e), ...logDetails },
+          { url, ...formatErr(e), ...logDetails },
           "recorder",
         );
       }
@@ -1436,7 +1417,7 @@ class AsyncFetcher {
       }
       logger.debug(
         "Streaming Fetch Error",
-        { url, networkId, filename, ...formatErr(e), ...logDetails },
+        { url, networkId, ...formatErr(e), ...logDetails },
         "recorder",
       );
       // indicate response is ultimately not valid
diff --git a/src/util/warcwriter.ts b/src/util/warcwriter.ts
index 2cd62a89..aed643a9 100644
--- a/src/util/warcwriter.ts
+++ b/src/util/warcwriter.ts
@@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ export class WARCWriter implements IndexerOffsetLength {
 
     this._writeCDX(responseRecord);
 
+    if (requestRecord.httpHeaders?.method !== "GET") {
+      await requestRecord.readFully(false);
+    }
+
     const requestSerializer = new WARCSerializer(requestRecord, opts);
     this.recordLength = await this._writeRecord(
       requestRecord,
@@ -162,6 +166,10 @@ export class WARCWriter implements IndexerOffsetLength {
     );
 
     this._writeCDX(requestRecord);
+
+    if (this.offset >= this.rolloverSize) {
+      this.fh = await this.initFH();
+    }
   }
 
   private addToQueue(
@@ -197,6 +205,10 @@ export class WARCWriter implements IndexerOffsetLength {
     this.recordLength = await this._writeRecord(record, requestSerializer);
 
     this._writeCDX(record);
+
+    if (this.offset >= this.rolloverSize) {
+      this.fh = await this.initFH();
+    }
   }
 
   writeNewResourceRecord(
@@ -257,7 +269,7 @@ export class WARCWriter implements IndexerOffsetLength {
     let total = 0;
     const url = record.warcTargetURI;
 
-    if (!this.fh || this.offset >= this.rolloverSize) {
+    if (!this.fh) {
       this.fh = await this.initFH();
     }
 
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 2e276aec..98e3d2c1 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -5277,10 +5277,10 @@ walker@^1.0.8:
   dependencies:
     makeerror "1.0.12"
 
-warcio@^2.3.0:
-  version "2.3.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/warcio/-/warcio-2.3.0.tgz#a655df9b5986a53e5d05aa68cda51bfefdfa8347"
-  integrity sha512-PCHcZ/fDE5+QECOFe/n/vzyDmAITJ1mvLx1jVONJ0uaV9OwcTbIWoh7Z0+OQwQdq8Wr1Nnb2hwhtHJ7J+9rHIQ==
+warcio@^2.3.0, warcio@^2.3.1:
+  version "2.3.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/warcio/-/warcio-2.3.1.tgz#8ac9de897de1a556161168f2a3938b60929908ca"
+  integrity sha512-PjcWqzXfs6HdWfHi1V/i8MoMmV5M0Csg3rOa2mqCJ1dmCJXswVfQ0VXbEVumwavNIW2oFFj6LJoCHHeL4Ls/zw==
   dependencies:
     "@types/pako" "^1.0.7"
     "@types/stream-buffers" "^3.0.7"