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Re: Simple "chat" facility
At 12:01 AM -0400 1996-08-12, Bill St. Clair wrote:
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>Give it a whirl at http://bitcraft.digitool.com/chat.html.
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>To see the source code: ftp://bitcraft.digitool.com/
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>Has anyone else done something like this in CL-HTTP?
I wrote something like this for the lispm machine last year.
The 1994 VP Open Meeting was like a giant version of this, but we
added a review process to moderate the flow.
>If not, are people interested in a more full-featured version?
Yes. Have a look at server push and client pull. These can take care
of the update issue. Combined with window target, they will make the hack work fine.
>A portable version?
Yes. This would be a good candidate for the examples directory as a companion
to the mail archive facility.
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>I won't be able to work on it in any but my copious spare time,
>but I'll likely get stuff done slowly.
This is a nice application and example of thing one can do with a
lisp-based server. I think there is a premium on keeping it really simple
and yet fully functional. That way, people can build other interesting
applications on top of this base.
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>I noticed that the CL-HTTP server works fine with Netscape and
>Internet Explorer, but CyberDog gets an "unknown error" on any
>attempt to access a computed URL, be it my chat facility or one
>of the CL-HTTP examples.
Dunno. We're fixed some Cyberdog related bugs. Apple doesn't know
quite how to program web applications; they believe the specs. If you can
identify the problem, we'll fix it provided it is not just bugs in
the Cyberdog beta.
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