[hunchentoot-devel] Re: Missing functions in Hunchentoot 0.4.10?

[Travis Cross]

Edi Weitz wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:40:43 +0000, "lisp" <lisp at spikeisland.com> wrote:
>> As an aside, do you know if anyone is looking at whether UCW can be
>> run on top of Hunchentoot?
> 
> Don't know.  Have you asked on their mailing list?

I remembered seeing this come across their mailing list, actually:

http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/bese-devel/2006-October/002763.html

Jan Rychter on bese-devel wrote:
> So, is anyone working on a hunchentoot backend? Seems like a very
> reasonable idea given the recent explosive development of hunchentoot,
> its portability enhancements and the overall quality of Edi Weitz's
> libraries.

I couldn't agree more :)

Marco Baringer on bese-devel:
> yes, i've thought of the same thing. i'd like to be able to drop the
> httpd backend and replace it with hunchentoot, but i want to make sure
> that it works as well as the httpd on openmcl and sbcl first. in
> particular i want to make sure hunchentoot, like the httpd, provides
> the option on not keeping the entire request/response in memory. if it
> does we lose the ability to handle large files (this, and stream
> encoding issues, was one of the reasons i wrote the httpd backend in
> the first place).

Cheers,

-- Travis