requests and entities are now parsed. Furthermore the whole
request-entity handling has been changed to allow lazy parsing, parsed
entity headers, and flexible choice of entities. This is all to
support the handling of MIME multipart entities, especially
multipart/form-data. The current revision is a first cut, and some
further rewrites are needed.
with Allegro CL in "modern" mode. Although we don't think that
"modern" mode is the correct approach to case-sensitivity in CL, the
changes we made should also make it easier to work in ANSI-compliant
implementations/modes, with all the settings for readtable-case. Note
though that this is a first best effort attempt, and so further
case-ification bugs might still remain. YMMV.
all versions of CMUCL that don't provide multi-processing support,
like on all non-x86 platforms. Tested on an UltraSparc running
Solaris 2.7 (hawk) and a mid-1999 version of CMUCL 18b+.
nearly all concepts and simple implementations thereof needed to get a
simple HTTP/0.9 "compliant" server working (there are some hacks
needed that we don't yet provide, since the correct things will be
added shortly, like complete HTTP/1.1 request parsing. The hacks
needed are provided as part of the basic HTTP/0.9 server demo in
src/test/basic-demo.cl).
Further work is needed to clean up some things, Entity and Resource
handling needs to be implemented right and less "naive" (the current
implementations are just simple place-holders to get things up and
running). Connections need to have knowledge of client identity
(passed from the driver, this is implementation-specific stuff).
Logging needs to be implemented (probably as server mixins).
Condition handling needs to generate better responses for HTTP/0.9,
and the division between condition handling and normal handling needs
to be documented/rethought. Content generation is totally missing
currently and needs to be implemented. If this is all in place, an
HTTP/1.0 conforming server should be possible, and after porting the
drivers to ACL and LW, we can make a first release.
