CL-HTTP
| Original author(s) | John C. Mallery |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1994 |
| Written in | Common Lisp |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Web Server |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | cl-http |
CL-HTTPis aweb server,clientandproxywritten inCommon Lisp.It is based on its ownweb application framework.It was written by John C. Mallery "in about 10 days"[1]starting in 1994 on aSymbolicsLisp Machine.In the same year a port toMacintosh Common Lispwas done. In 1996 CL-HTTP became the first web server to support theHTTP 1.1protocol.[2]It runs onUnix,Linux,BSD variants,Mac OS X,Solaris,Symbolics GeneraandMicrosoft Windows.
CL-HTTP makes extensive use of theCommon Lisp Object Systemand the macro capabilities of Lisp.[3]
Usage
[edit]CL-HTTP has been used in several applications. ELM-ART is a tutoring system written in Common Lisp using CL-HTTP.[4] It was later commercialized as NetCoach.[5] InterBook is an early adaptive electronic textbook, also written on top of CL-HTTP.[6] Cl-HTTP has been used very early as a tool to create web interfaces for applications.[7][8][9][10]
In 1994, CL-HTTP was used by theW3Cand other members of theIETFHTTP working group to develop reference clients and servers for HTTP 1.1.[11]
Most prominently, CL-HTTP was used during thepresidency of Bill Clintonas the web server for the White House Publications web site. It distributed the daily press releases and official publications of the Clinton Administration.[12]
CL-HTTP has been used as an example of a non-trivial Lisp application.[13]
Features
[edit]- Object-oriented architecture using the Common Lisp Object System
- SSLsupport
- Server
- Handling of static files
- Computed content, Computed forms
- HTML generation with Lisp macros
- Virtual servers
- Web page access authentication
- Custom logging
- Server-side includes
- Caching Proxy
- Client
References
[edit]- ^"CL-HTTP History".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-05-22.Retrieved2014-05-22.
- ^"ANNOUNCE: Common Lisp Web Server (60.57)".
- ^Mallery, John C. (May 25, 1994).A Common LISP Hypermedia Server.Proceedings of the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web. Geneva: CERN.
- ^Brusilovsky, Peter; Schwarz, Elmar; Weber, Gerhard (1996). "ELM-ART: An intelligent tutoring system on world wide web".Intelligent Tutoring Systems.Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1086/1996. Springer. pp. 261–269.doi:10.1007/3-540-61327-7_123.ISBN978-3-540-61327-5.
- ^Weber, Gerhard; Kuhl, Hans-Christian; Weibelzahl, Stephan (2002).Developing Adaptive Internet Based Courses with the Authoring System NetCoach.Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 2266/2002.
- ^Brusilovsky, Peter; Schwarz, Elmar; Weber, Gerhard (October 15–19, 1996).A Tool for Developing Adaptive Electronic Textbooks on WWW.WebNet 96 Conference Proceedings. San Francisco, CA.
- ^Davies, Byron; Davies, Victoria Bryan (May 1997)."Patching onto the Web: Common LISP hypermedia for the intranet".Communications of the ACM.40(5): 66–69.doi:10.1145/253769.253794.S2CID18764239.
- ^Taube, Heinrich; Kunze, Tobias (1997).An HTTP Interface to Common Music.International Computer Music Conference.doi:10.2307/3681213.JSTOR3681213.
- ^Welty, Christopher A. "An HTML Interface for Classic".Proceedings of the 1996 Description Logic Workshop (DL'96).WS-96-05 in AAAI Technical Report. AAAI Press.
- ^Rahkila, M.; Karjalainen, M. (1997).An interactive DSP tutorial on the Web.IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Vol. ICASSP-97. Espoo: Lab. of Acoust. & Audio Signal Process., Helsinki Univ. of Technol.CiteSeerX10.1.1.130.8585.
- ^"CL-HTTP History".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-05-22.Retrieved2014-05-22.
- ^"CL-HTTP was fielded in 1994 to serve the White House Publications System".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-05-17.Retrieved2012-08-06.
- ^Dozsa, A.; Gtrba, T.; Marinescu, R. (2008).How Lisp Systems Look Different.12th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering. Vol. CSMR 2008. Timișoara: Politeh. Univ. of Timișoara. pp. 223–232.doi:10.1109/CSMR.2008.4493317.ISBN978-1-4244-2157-2.S2CID6368390.