Hi,
The attached rough patch splices the Drakma library into Closure for HTTP support. Drakma is a very nice web client library by Edi Weitz:
Unlike the current Closure code, the library supports HTTPS and HTTP/1.1. I see this as an opportunity to replace some of the undermaintained code in Closure by high quality external libraries; this concerns
src/net/http.lisp (replaced by Drakma) src/net/url.lisp (partially replaced by PURI) src/net/uri.lisp (ditto)
I haven't yet started trying to remove stale code; this is just a proof of concept. A likely candidate for similar replacement is the GSTREAM code, which could likely advantageously be replaced by Flexi-streams. Opinions on whether this is a good route to pursue are welcome.
Hi,
Quoting Eric Marsden (eric.marsden@free.fr):
Unlike the current Closure code, the library supports HTTPS and HTTP/1.1. I see this as an opportunity to replace some of the undermaintained code in Closure by high quality external libraries; this concerns
src/net/http.lisp (replaced by Drakma)
if Drakma lives up to the standard of all other "Edi-ware", that sounds like a good idea.
It would be nice if we could remove as much implementation-dependent code as possible in favour of /good/ abstractions.
According to Drakma's web page, it uses trivial-sockets, which isn't really that much better than what we have in glisp already. Since usocket appears to have compatibility code for trivial-sockets, would it be a good idea to migrate to usocket for all of closure's socket needs?
src/net/url.lisp (partially replaced by PURI) src/net/uri.lisp (ditto)
Hmm, I started using PURI in CXML without thinking much about it, and it certainly works, but how good is it really? Perhaps we should improve Closure's URI support instead?
I would switch CXML to "Closure-URI" if that happened.
d.
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Eric Marsden