Hi Everybody!

First, I'm sorry for the shameless self-advertisement in this mail, but I though this may interest you.

As you may have noticed, I used and looked into hunchentoot quite a bit in the past few weeks. My goal was to end up with a reliable, efficient and easy-to-manage HTTP redirection server.

After a few weeks to ensure the stability of the code, I am glad to present to you cl-cheshire-cat, available on github: https://github.com/mentel/cl-cheshire-cat and soon, I hope, via quicklisp too.

In Web hosting/development industry, one often ends up with legacy or alternate domain-names onw wants to be redirected to a newer or canonical domain-name. These redirection rules can be as simple as "add "www." to the domain-name" or complex enough to require regex based path rewrite and query-string manipulation.

Cheshire cat intends to provide an easy-to-use, lightweight and reliable solution to this problem in order to get rid of boiler plate config files for httpd or nginx in order to put together a few redirections. I must add that the software in its current release is currently in use on our production servers supporting a load of about 50k queries a day on a single server.

If you see fit, I'd deeply appreciate a mention in the list of projects using Hunchentoot.

Moreover, if you have any question, comment or suggestion, I'd be happy to read and answer them. This is my first sizable open-source project, so there are probably plenty of enhancements to be done.

Thanks for your time and for your work on hunchentoot and its various dependencies without which this project could never be thought of. Mathieu Lemoine.