Working with StructBeans?

[dtsed]

Ran into a problem earlier today while trying to migrate some CF 4.5 code to CF
MX - tried to copy what I thought was a Struct in CF MX and instead got an
error. Seems that the CFHTTP object is a StructBean in MX, rather than a
plain Struct. That raises a few questions:

-How do I identify such objects (maybe a isStructBean() function somewhere?)
-How do I copy an object like this into a struct, if at all possible?
-How else can I work with it? What other methods are available?

Thanks for any and all help in advance.

DTS