I've been trying to get drakma (and cl+ssl and CFFI, etc...) working on ABCL. Now I manage to get most of the way there, but I run into an error down in usocket:socket-connect (well, get-socket-stream really): :ELEMENT-TYPE must be CHARACTER or (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8). [Condition of type SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR] Restarts: 0: [RETRY] Retry SLIME REPL evaluation request. 1: [*ABORT] Return to SLIME's top level. 2: [ABORT] Abort thread. Backtrace: 0: (#<FUNCTION {181CA265}> #<SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR {644BFFE5}> #<FUNCTION {181CA265}>) 1: (APPLY #<FUNCTION {181CA265}> (#<SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR {644BFFE5}> #<FUNCTION {181CA265}>)) 2: (SYSTEM::RUN-HOOK SYSTEM::*INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* #<SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR {644BFFE5}> #<FUNCTION {181CA265}>) 3: (INVOKE-DEBUGGER #<SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR {644BFFE5}>) 4: (ERROR SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR :FORMAT-CONTROL ":ELEMENT-TYPE must be CHARACTER or (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8).") 5: (GET-SOCKET-STREAM #<sun.nio.ch.SocketAdaptor Socket[addr=github.com/207.97.22... {2CD5B121}> :ELEMENT-TYPE FLEXI-STREAMS:OCTET) 6: (USOCKET:SOCKET-CONNECT "github.com" 443 :ELEMENT-TYPE FLEXI-STREAMS:OCTET :NODELAY ...) 7: (DRAKMA:HTTP-REQUEST "https://github.com/slyrus") 8: (SYSTEM::%EVAL (DRAKMA:HTTP-REQUEST "https://github.com/slyrus")) 9: (EVAL (DRAKMA:HTTP-REQUEST "https://github.com/slyrus")) --more-- Any ideas if get-socket-stream needs some octet support or what the best way to address this is? thanks, Cyrus