Hi,
I have been developing an application using mod_lisp/TBNL and have been
very happy with the combination. As the project progressed the desire
for a stand-alone version of the application has become overwhelming
 Since I've used Araneida for prototyping in the past and liked it,
I thought that using Araneida with TBNL would be a nice combination.
I've got this working. It consists of an in-the-end surprisingly simple
handle-request-response method and a few relatively minor changes to
both TBNL and Araneida. I've been in touch with Edi Weitz regarding the
changes to TBNL and will send him a patch. Now I need to talk to the
Araneida developers about the change to Araneida that I made.
The difficulty was that Araneida and TBNL take slightly different
approaches to handling the body of an HTTP request. Araneida parses the
body immediately (and I *think* assumes form encoding) where TBNL takes
a lazy approach (and deals with multipart encodings). What I did was to
add a new slot to the Araneida request class that records the
body-string sent to the function parse-body (in daemon.lisp). I can
then, before invoking TBNL, do this kind of thing:
(with-input-from-string (input (map 'string
(lambda (c) (code-char c))
(request-unparsed-body
request)))
(with-open-stream (tbnl::*apache-stream* (MAKE-TWO-WAY-STREAM
input
(request-stream request)))
The reason I had to do this is that the decision to parse or not parse
the body is taken *before* the handler is determined. The consequence
is that the body parsing done by Araneida is ignored and TBNL does it
instead. Ideally the parsing of the body could be deferred until it is
asked for. There is a possible problem when uploading files --
Lispworks as a limit on the size of arrays which would restrict upload
to something like a megabyte. I'm assuming that Araneida consumes the
entire input stream, if it doesn't then this will be another problem
because TBNL won't get it using the scheme I've introduced.
NOTE: that mapping over the unparsed body might be a Lispworks-ism.
For Lispworks, I made another small change that allows UTF-8 to be
served.
I can provide a patch to Araneida 0.9 if somebody will tell me who to
send it to.
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Bob Hutchison -- blogs at <http://www.recursive.ca/hutch/>
Recursive Design Inc. -- <http://www.recursive.ca/>
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