Re: [Chicken-users] A project: mod_seas

[Ed Watkeys]

On Feb 27, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Sunnan wrote:

> Looks nice. Are you familiar with mod_lisp? It doesn't use sexps, so 
> there's Some Assembly Required, but the idea's similar to yours.

Yeah, I remember looking at it, but something irritated me about it. I 
think it's mostly that it wasn't Apache 2.0 friendly. Some Googling 
reveals that apparently mod_lisp now works with 2.0. I was looking 
through the source code, and it looks overly complicated. But it works. 
Hmm.

I'm interested in parsing form data in QUERY_STRING and POST data, as 
well as cookies, and providing them in the request a-list. I'd like to 
hand the external process everything on a silver platter so the 
external process doesn't have to do any of the tedious request 
processing stuff that probably takes forever to run in interpreted 
Scheme.

I like my approach because all the external process needs to do is a 
(read) on the network port. In the last week, I've written external 
process programs in Gambit, Guile, SISC, and Chicken. It's extremely 
easy -- aside from the irritating issues with orderly server shutdown 
that I've encountered with each implementation I've used aside from 
SISC.

Ed