New Araneida finally out of the door#

Mon, 10 Nov 2003 05:25:22 +0000

New Araneida finally out of the door.

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Subject: ANNOUNCE: release Araneida 0.80
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From: Daniel Barlow telent.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 05:25:01 +0000
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Araneida 0.80 has been released to ftp.linux.org.uk and is now making
its way to whichever CCLAN mirrors are actually still maintained.
From the release notes:
 New HTTP-LISTENER abstraction drastically improves the threaded
  variant of Araneida, and also replaces a lot of older ad-hocky code
  and global variables.  The following are at least obsolete, and may
  not even exist any more
  - The 'server' stuff: export-server etc
  - root-handler
  - install-{thread,serve-event}-handlers, remove-handlers
 Raising HTTP errors from handlers is now accomplished in a far
  cleaner fashion, by signalling CL conditions.  (This also means that
  parent handlers may handle these conditions to provide e.g. custom
  404 pages).  A condition exists for each 4xx and 5xx HTTP response code
 Add REFRESH header to REQUEST-SEND-HEADERS; sends the not-quite-HTTP
  'Refresh: ' header (really, not part of HTTP/1.0 or 1.1: it appears to
  have been a Netscape extension)
 Fix packaging problem in 0.72
 ... and even compiles (in fact, only compiles) in current SBCL versions

This version of Araneida requires source code changes in your
application - although not terribly pervasive ones; unless there are
vastly more Araneida users than I'm aware of, I felt it would be
quicker for users to update their configuration than for me to provice
legacy compatibility routines.  There is a complete and working
example of Araneida configuration in doc/example.lisp: it should be
about three lines for most people.
Feedback appreciated.  

-dan
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