Not sure if this is a Drakma problem or a Flexi-streams problem, but I thought I'd start here. I'm trying to run Drakma on Clozure Common Lisp and I get this when I try to call http-request:

Error: There is no applicable method for the generic function: #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION FLEXI-STREAMS::WRITE-SEQUENCE*

#x3000422E84EF>

   when called with arguments:
     (#<EXTERNAL-FORMAT (:ISO-8859-1 :EOL-STYLE :LF)  

#x30004276AF3D> #<FLEXI-STREAMS:FLEXI-IO-STREAM #x3000428BB9ED> "GET" 0 3)

I'm running the following versions of things:

drakma-1.0.0 flexi-streams-1.0.7 chunga-1.0.0 trivial-gray-streams-2008-11-02 UFFI 1.6.0

This appears at a cursory glance to be a bad interaction between flexi- streams and CCL's built-in unicode support. The EXTERNAL-FORMAT class is built in to CCL. It is not a flexi-streams class (nor a Chunga class).

I would debug this myself but I got a report that someone is successfully running Drakma on CCL so I thought someone might just know the answer.

Thanks, rg