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CL-HTTP 51.1 -- Prerelease for Mac + LispM
For those interested in some holiday hacking on Macs, the development version
of CL-HTTP 51.1 has been tested on the MAC and runs substantially better than
earlier versions.
It won't be officially released until the documentation is updated and some
updates to the ACL and LCD ports are available.
Expect subtantially better performance on MACs.
Please report any bugs or problems, especially related to pesewas connections
in unusual situations.
Note the following caveats:
* PCI Architectures: Use MacTCP 2.0.6, turn off MMU, maximize cache size for
the dynamic compilation of 68xx code, use MCL3.0p2pk1
* 68XX Architectures: Use MCL3.0p2. Although the kernel patch works
when the mac is connected to an ethernet and using the internet, I found that
the Mac crashes when running CL-HTTP in standalone mode using AppleTalk LoopBack.
* Beware that both the Netscape and Spyglass Beta Browser will crash your machine
in certain not too frequent situations.
The main new features in 51.1 are:
* Persistent connections (http 1.1.) available using Netscape 2.0b4 and Spyglass 2.1beta.
If you have log notifications turned on, you will see a {n} at the front of entries whenever
more than a single request has been served over a connection.
* Substantial improvements to the digest password scheme available using Spyglass 2.1 beta.
* Performance Improvements
o Virtually cons-free HTML generation.
o Dramatically reduced consing parsing headers
o Faster URL parsing.
* Put, post, and delete HTTP methods updated to the 1.1 spec.
* HTTP 1.1 preparation.
* Access Control Management with Digest authentication.
Merry Christmas