A concise web server for use with Nu and Objective-C
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Kurt is a small portable web server for use with Nu. It is based on the libevent event notification library (http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/), and has been tested on OS X 10.5 and Linux (Ubuntu-7.10) systems. REQUIREMENTS Kurt requires Nu and nuke, the Nu build tool. To obtain Nu, please visit http://programming.nu or get the source from the Nu git repository on github: http://github.com/timburks/nu Kurt requires libevent. Before building Kurt, please be sure that libevent is installed on your system. The default build configuration expects libevent to be installed in /usr/local. Helpers for working with URL query strings have been factored out into a separate project, NuHTTPHelpers, which is now required to run Kurt. On Linux systems, Kurt requires an implementation of the Foundation classes. It is has been successfully used with the GNUStep base library on Debian Linux systems. The primary Kurt repository is on github: http://github.com/timburks/kurt INSTALLATION After installing all prerequisites, build the Kurt framework by typing "nuke" in the top-level Kurt directory. AN EXAMPLE Let's start with the simplest possible Kurt app: ============================================== #!/usr/local/bin/nush (load "Kurt") (get "/" "hello!") (Kurt run) ============================================== Kurt can also be run from the command line using the "kurtd" (kurt daemon) script. kurtd accepts arguments that can be used to specify a port and a site description. But the recommended way to run Kurt services is by writing them in a single file, as above, with components factored out into subfiles as deemed necessary. A sample such instance is in the sample directory in the "sampled" file. To run it, just run: sampled The sample site is very simple, but illustrates the processing of GET and POST requests and the basics of response generation, including the use of cookies. INFLUENCES Kurt is modeled on Blake Mizerany's Sinatra, http://sinatra.rubyforge.org/ but has the clarity and transparency of implementation that can only be achieved with Objective-C and Nu. Kurt is named after your favorite famous Kurt: Vonnegut, Cobain, even Russell if you like, and this definition from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: curt (kûrt) 1. Rudely brief or abrupt, as in speech or manner. See Synonyms at gruff. 2. Using few words; terse. 3. Having been shortened. In an earlier, more verbose era, Kurt was known as Nunja. AUTHOR Kurt was written by Tim Burks. Kurt is released under the Apache License, version 2.0. Copyright 2010, Neon Design Technology, Inc.
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