s-http-client

https://github.com/svenvc/s-http-client.git


    git clone 'https://github.com/svenvc/s-http-client.git'
      

      

(ql:quickload :s-http-client)

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S-HTTP-CLIENT

A Common Lisp HTTP Client

S-HTTP-CLIENT is a basic implementation of a Common Lisp HTTP Client. This simple package is used as a building block in a number of other open source projects.

Features
Status
News
Platforms
Downloading
Installation
Usage
API Reference
Mailinglist
Changelog
TODO
FAQ
Bugs
Authors
Maintainers
License
History
References

Features

S-HTTP-CLIENT can:

access any URL over HTTP/HTTPS using any HTTP verb
support connection reuse
support basic authentication

Status

S-HTTP-CLIENT is considered stable code.

News

December 2005 - S-HTTP-CLIENT was featured in my first Lisp Movie: Episode 1: HTTP Client and Server [dead-link].
November 2005 - Created as a separate project.

Platforms

S-HTTP-CLIENT is written in ANSI standard Common Lisp and should be portable across any CL implementation, provided parts of S-SYSDEPS are ported.

Installation

The S-HTTP-CLIENT package is loaded using ASDF. There is an excellent tutorial on ASDF to get you started.

CL-USER 1 > (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :s-http-client)

Example of setting up and using ASDF to compile and load the package

Usage

Just call DO-HTTP-REQUEST with the necessary arguments. For example:

CL-USER 1 > (in-package :s-http-client)
#<The S-HTTP-CLIENT package, 59/128 internal, 5/16 external>

S-HTTP-CLIENT 2 > (s-http-client:do-http-request "http://homepage.mac.com/svc/s-http-client/foo.html")
"<html>
<head><title>Foo</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Foo</h1>
<p>Just a test page.</p>
</body>
</html>
"
200
((:DATE . "Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:05:38 GMT") 
 (:CONTENT-LENGTH . "100") 
 (:CONTENT-TYPE . "text/html") 
 (:CACHE-CONTROL . "public") 
 (:X-RESPONDING-SERVER . "webdav11") 
 (:SERVER . "AppleDotMacServer") 
 (:ETAG . "14djc8on-8nlp-j19yhvvj5-c37cvzcpi0") 
 (:LAST-MODIFIED . "Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:02:31 GMT") 
 (:VIA . "1.1 netcache02 (NetCache NetApp/5.5R6)"))
#<URI http://homepage.mac.com:80/svc/s-http-client/foo.html>
:NEW

In principle, any HTTP verb is allowed. It is the easiest to specify them as keywords. In the case of :POST or :PUT, content as well as a content-type should be specified (content length will be calculated). Content can be specified as a string or byte sequence as far as write-sequence can be called on your platforms TCP/IP stream. Basic authorization is to be specified as (username . password) strings.

Connections are kept alive and reused as long as the same host and port are accessed using the same scheme. Both HTTP/1.0 with Keep-Alive headers as well as HTTP/1.1 is supported. Chunked transfer encoding is also implemented.

API Reference

There is automatically generated in documentation available for the S-HTTP-CLIENT package in doc/API.html

Mailinglist

There is no mailing list for this project.

Changelog

Release Notes:

release 1: moved S-HTTP-CLIENT into a seperate project under a new structure

TODO

Proxy support is currently not implemented, although it is not really hard.

FAQ

Nothing appropriate.

Bugs

HTTPS in only implemented on LispWorks (where it was really easy).

Authors

S-HTTP-CLIENT was written by Sven Van Caekenberghe.

Maintainers

S-HTTP-CLIENT is being maintained by Sven Van Caekenberghe.

License

You are granted the rights to distribute and use this software as governed by the terms of the Lisp Lesser General Public License (http://opensource.franz.com/preamble.html), also known as the LLGPL.

History

This is a new project.

References

There are no references.