[hunchentoot-devel] Request methods suffixed with * -- not backwards compatible?

[Hans Hübner]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 09:51, Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> wrote:
> The idea is that all the relevant objects (request, replies, servers)
> are CLOS objects (which is already the case) and exported (which isn't
> the case now) so that you can subclass them and write your own methods
> which override the default behaviour.

One example usage for this would be in a web framework that associates
certain kinds of information (i.e. sessions, users, uploaded files)
with a request earlier in the request processing chain.  Currently,
this can be done using the aux-request-value mechanism, but that is
rather clumsy.

-Hans