Welcome to The Common
Lisp Hypermedia Server Welcome to The Common
Lisp Hypermedia Server
Major Features
Computed URLs written in Lisp supersede conventional CGI scripts.
This is the Common Lisp Hypermedia Server for the World Wide Web developed by John C. Mallery (jcma@ai.mit.edu) of the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Obtaining
The Current Version: The CL-HTTP
Home Page centralizes information about this Web server and related Common
Lisp WWW tools. If you obtained this distribution from somewhere other than
ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/users/jcma/cl-http/, you should FTP the latest
version for best results.
Common Lisp Platforms:
The server has been ported to a number of Common Lisp implementations running
on a variety of computer hardware.
Browsing the Documentation:
Watch out for URLs on the local host that compute their output in some interesting
way.When operating in standalone mode or over a network not connected to the internet,
you can still follow all the documentation and source code that comes with the server.
In both cases, you may wish to set your browser so that you can see the URL under the
mouse, and especially, the host that serves it.
Questions: If you have any
questions, send mail to WWW-CL@AI.MIT.EDU.
CL-HTTP
DocumentationThe Common Lisp Hypermedia Server (CL-HTTP) is here for you to rapidly prototype and smoothly evolve novel or complex applications for the World Wide Web. After reading the WWW-94 conference paper , the first documentation items below should be enough to get you up and running.
Configuration Instructions
explain how to start up World Wide Web service on specific Lisp platforms.
Release Notes
describe new features and issues for specific platforms
Server
Features illustrates various things you can do with CL-HTTP using live examples which you can copy and edit for
your own applications. You can brighten up your pages with some basic icons.
Documentation for exporting documents and
for using image maps.
Computing Responses explains
the how to write response functions and accept user input with fill-out forms.
W3P Presentation System explains
how to use presentation types with HTML forms.
Authentication explains the how to control access to
resources with user names and passwords as well as secure subnets.
Proxy Service
explains how to configure the server for HTTP proxy service.
VRML Generation
explains the how to generate 3D scenes under program control with the Virtual Reality
Modeling Language.
HTML Parser
explains how to parse HTML using tools distributed with CL-HTTP.
Site Indexing & Information Retrieval
explains the how to use LambdaVista -- a hybrid classification and retrieval
system that indexes your Web site, including email HyperArchives, and supports
full-text retrieval.
Documentation for major
modules. CL-HTTP provides a powerful self-documentation tools
describing practically every class, method, function, macro, and variable in
the systems.
Common Lisp Source Code
| Portable | Location |
|---|---|
| Examples | http:examples; |
| Server | http:server; |
| W3P Presentation System | http:w3p; |
| Proxy Service | http:proxy; |
| Basic Client | http:client; |
| LambdaVista Search Tool | http:lambda-ir; |
| W4 Web Walker | http:w4; |
| HTML Parser | http:html-parser; |
| Email HyperArchive | http:examples;mail-archive.lisp |
| CLIM Interfaces | http:clim; |
| SMTP Mail | http:smtp; |
| Platform-Specific | Location |
| Allegro | http:acl; |
| Allegro 5.0.1 | http:acl501; |
| CMU CL | http:cmucl; |
| LispWorks | http:lw; |
| Lucid | http:lcl; |
| Macintosh | http;mcl; |
| Symbolics | http:lispm; |
| User-Contributed | Location |
| Portable | http:contrib |
| Macintosh | http;mcl;contrib; |
| Allegro | http:acl;contrib; |
Full
Distribution provides web access to the distribution file structure below the logical
pathname, http:http; or Search for URLS (or files)
containing a substring.
Development Projects describe useful
additions to CL-HTTP that volunteers might want to work on.
Guidelines
and Hints on writing well-abstracted yet efficient code for CL-HTTP.
Internet
Standards for the World Wide Web.
Developer Tools enumerates some
tools that may be useful to cl-http developers.
Extending the Server explains some ways to
customize the server for new behaviors.
Brief
History recounts the origins of this server and some early applications.
Reference Materials indexes a
valuable range of technical documentation and software repositories
relevant for WWW and Lisp development.
Acknowledgments
credits the people who helped out.
The
Current Version can be retrieved from the CL-HTTP
Home Page, which centralizes information about this Web server and related
Common Lisp WWW tools. Alternatively, one can access the FTP directory
directly at
ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/users/jcma/cl-http/.
Learn
about new releases, usage, and applications of CL-HTTP as well as
general WWW programming with Common Lisp on www-cl@ai.mit.edu. Note that you must
join the discussion group before sending mail to it, or the listserve will
ignore your mail. Although a little inconvenient, this listserve
configuration prevents rampant spam mail from reaching your inbox and the
archives.
To: www-cl-request@ai.mit.edu
Subject: subscribe
To: www-cl-request@ai.mit.edu
Subject: unsubscribe
Bug Reports
When reporting bugs, it is essential that you explain how to reproduce the problem, provide a backtrace when relevant, and include the server version, the Common Lisp version, operating system version, and hardware configuration.
If possible, use the sources to fix the problem and send the fix along with the report.
Report bugs associated with specific ports should go to one of the specialized mailing lists:
Allegro Common Lisp: Bug-ACL-CL-HTTP@ai.mit.edu LispWorks Common Lisp: Bug-LW-CL-HTTP@ai.mit.edu Lucid Common Lisp: Bug-LCL-CL-HTTP@ai.mit.edu Macintosh Common Lisp: Bug-MCL-CL-HTTP@ai.mit.edu Symbolics Common Lisp: Bug-CL-HTTP@ai.mit.edu CMU Common Lisp: Bug-CMUCL-CL-HTTP@ai.mit.edu
Common source or platform independent bugs or issues should be reported to Bug-CL-HTTP@ai.mit.edu.
Bugs or questions concerning the Constraint Guided Web Walker should be sent to bug-w4@ai.mit.edu.
