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Re: TODO list: httpd server parsed guile.


Craig Brozefsky <craig@onshore.com> writes:

> 
> David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> writes:
> 
> > Looks neat, but an Apache module would allow lots of people to try it
> > out without too much trouble.  And that is the API I am familiar with.
> 
> Unless you want to use scheme to control other layers of the Apache
> API, such as authentication, configuration, file selection, filtering,
> you would be better off with either a FastCGI interface, or a seperate
> server that you mapped into your web space with Apache redirects or
> just straight up references.
> 
> When I do scheme web programming, I usually use scsh and the sunet
> server with some mods for making the devel cycle a little nicer
> (signal handler to reload configuration etc...)  Ahh, the SU tools are
> just so sweet 8^)  Guile can get there too!!!
> 
> I remember seeing someone had a small webserver in guile already
> written, but I misplaced the archive of it I had.  Could someone
> repost that URL.  That code base would be a nice place to start, maybe
> stealing some feature ideas from the sunet server.

Lets just port sunet; wouldn't that be a win?

-russ