Re: Documentation for cl-http

To: "Clifton H. Poole" <poole@ils.nwu.edu>
Subject: Re: Documentation for cl-http
From: Vincent <cvince@ai.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:23:31 -0500
Cc: www-cl@ai.mit.edu, cvince@ai.mit.edu
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The best way to get started understanding the server is to take a close look 
at the examples in http>examples>exports.lisp.  These demonstrate the HTML 
synthesis tools, as well as server features such as image-maps and authentication.
The best way to understand what's going on is to traverse the code.  You 
don't need to understand everything that's going on right away, but you can get
the general idea.  Creating web applications using the synthesis tools 
shouldn't require you to understand in detail the workings of the server.  Looking
at the code in http>server>html2.lisp should get you a long way.  Again, use the
examples in exports.lisp as a guide.  If you decide to hack the server, a class
browser is helpful (bambi's browser for mcl works well, available from ftp.mcl.com).
If you have an existing LISP system you want to interface to the web, the 
synthesis tools should allow you to put together an interface pretty easily.

Christopher Vincent
cvince@ai.mit.edu

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Documentation for cl-http

From: "Clifton H. Poole" <poole@ils.nwu.edu>