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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="clixdoc.xsl" ?>
<clix:documentation xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:clix='http://bknr.net/clixdoc'>
<clix:title>HUNCHENTOOT - The Common Lisp web server formerly known as TBNL</clix:title>
<clix:short-description>
A fully-featured web server written in Common Lisp offering things
like HTTP/1.1 chunking, persistent connections, and SSL. Includes
a framework for building dynamic websites interactively.
</clix:short-description>
<h2>
<a href="http://www.htg1.de/hunchentoot/hunchentoot.html"
title="Click here for the Hunchentoot logo"
class="noborder">
<img align="top" width="93" height="45" border="0" src="hunchentoot.gif" />
</a>
HUNCHENTOOT - The Common Lisp web server formerly known as TBNL
</h2>
<blockquote>
<clix:chapter name='abstract' title='Abstract'>
<p>
Hunchentoot is a web server written in Common Lisp and at the
same time a toolkit for building dynamic websites. As a
stand-alone web server, Hunchentoot is capable of HTTP/1.1
chunking (both directions), persistent connections
(keep-alive), and SSL.
</p>
<p>
Hunchentoot provides facilities like automatic session
handling (with and without cookies), logging, customizable
error handling, and easy access to GET and POST parameters
sent by the client. It does <em>not</em> include functionality
to programmatically generate HTML output. For this task you
can use any library you like, e.g. (shameless self-plug)
<a href="http://weitz.de/cl-who/">CL-WHO</a> or
<a href="http://weitz.de/html-template/">HTML-TEMPLATE</a>.
</p>
<p>
Hunchentoot talks with its front-end or with the client over
TCP/IP sockets and optionally uses multiprocessing to handle
several requests at the same time. Therefore, it cannot be
implemented completely in
<a href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index.htm">portable
Common Lisp</a>. It currently works "natively" with
<a href="http://www.lispworks.com/">LispWorks</a> (which is the
main development and testing platform), and additionally on all
Lisps which are supported by the compatibility
layers <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/usocket/">usocket</a>
and <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/bordeaux-threads/">Bordeaux
Threads</a>.
</p>
<p>
Hunchentoot comes with a
<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php">BSD-style
license</a> so you can basically do with it whatever you want.
</p>
<p>
Hunchentoot is (or was) for example used by
<a href="http://quickhoney.com/">QuickHoney</a>,
<a href="http://postabon.com/">Postabon</a>,
<a href="http://www.city-farming.de/">City Farming</a>,
<a href="http://www.thoughtcrime.us/tp/">Trip Planner</a>,
<a href="http://www.jalat.com/">Jalat</a>,
<a href="http://heikestephan.de/">Heike Stephan</a>,
<a href="http://www.memetrics.com/">xOs</a>, and
<a href="http://syseng.nist.gov/moss">the</a>
<a href="http://syseng.nist.gov/se-interop">NIST</a>.
</p>
<p>
<font color="red">Download shortcut:</font>
<a href="http://weitz.de/files/hunchentoot.tar.gz">http://weitz.de/files/hunchentoot.tar.gz</a>.
</p>
</clix:chapter>
</blockquote>
<clix:chapter name='contents' title='Contents'></clix:chapter>
<clix:contents></clix:contents>
<clix:chapter name="install" title="Download and installation">
Hunchentoot depends on a couple of other Lisp libraries which you'll need
to install first:
<ul>
<li>Pierre R. Mai's <a href="http://www.cliki.net/md5">MD5</a>,</li>
<li>Kevin Rosenberg's <a href="http://www.cliki.net/cl-base64">CL-BASE64</a>,</li>
<li>Janis Dzerins' <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/rfc2388/">RFC2388</a>,</li>
<li>Peter Seibel's <a href="http://weitz.de/cl-fad/">CL-FAD</a>,</li>
<li>Gary King's <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/trivial-backtrace/">trivial-backtrace</a>,</li>
<li>Erik Huelsmann's <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/usocket">usocket</a> (unless you're using LispWorks),</li>
<li>Greg Pfeil's <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/bordeaux-threads/">Bordeaux Threads</a> (unless you're using LispWorks),
</li>
<li>
David Lichteblau's <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-plus-ssl/">CL+SSL</a>
(unless you're using LispWorks),
</li>
<li>
and my own <a href="http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/">FLEXI-STREAMS</a> (0.12.0 or higher),
<a href="http://weitz.de/chunga/">Chunga</a> (1.0.0 or
higher), and <a href="http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/">
CL-PPCRE</a> (plus
<a href="http://weitz.de/cl-who/">CL-WHO</a> for the <a href="#start">example code</a>
and <a href="http://weitz.de/drakma/">Drakma</a> for the <a href="#testing">tests</a>).
</li>
</ul>
Make sure to use the <em>newest</em> versions of all of these
libraries (which might themselves depend on other libraries) - try
the repository versions if you're in doubt. Note: You can compile
Hunchentoot without SSL support - and thus without the need to
have CL+SSL - if you add <code>:HUNCHENTOOT-NO-SSL</code> to
<a href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/v_featur.htm">
<code>*FEATURES*</code></a> <em>before</em> you compile it.
<p>
Hunchentoot will only work with Lisps where
the <a href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/26_glo_c.htm#character_code">character
codes</a> of
all <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1">Latin-1</a>
characters coincide with their
Unicode <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_point">code
points</a> (which is the case for all current implementations I
know).
</p>
<p>
Hunchentoot itself together with this documentation can be
downloaded from
<a href="http://weitz.de/files/hunchentoot.tar.gz">http://weitz.de/files/hunchentoot.tar.gz</a>.
The current version is 1.2.3.
</p>
<p>
The preferred method to compile and load Hunchentoot is via <a
href="http://www.cliki.net/asdf">ASDF</a>. If you want to avoid
downloading and installing all the dependencies manually, give
Zach Beane's excellent <a
href="http://www.quicklisp.org/">Quicklisp</a> system a try.
</p>
<p>
Hunchentoot and its dependencies can also be installed with <a
href="http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf-install/">ASDF-INSTALL</a>,
<a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/clbuild/">clbuild</a>,
or my own <a href="http://weitz.de/starter-pack/">Starter
Pack</a>. There's also a port for <a
href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/common-lisp/index.xml">Gentoo
Linux</a> thanks to Matthew Kennedy.
</p>
<p>
The current development version of Hunchentoot can be found
at <a href="https://github.com/edicl/hunchentoot">https://github.com/edicl/hunchentoot</a>.
If you want to send patches, please fork the github repository and send pull requests.
</p>
<p>
Luís Oliveira maintains an
unofficial <a href="http://darcs.net/">darcs</a> repository of
Hunchentoot at
<a href="http://common-lisp.net/~loliveira/ediware/">http://common-lisp.net/~loliveira/ediware/</a>.
</p>
<clix:subchapter name="port80" title="Running Hunchentoot on port 80">
Hunchentoot does not come with code to help with running it on a
privileged port (i.e. port 80 or 443) on Unix-like operating
systems. Modern Unix-like systems have specific, non-portable
ways to allow non-root users to listen to privileged ports, so
including such functionality in Hunchentoot was considered
unnecessary. Please refer to online resources for help. At the
time of this writing, the YAWS documentation has a <a
href="http://yaws.hyber.org/privbind.yaws">comprehensive
writeup</a> on the topic.
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name="proxy" title="Hunchentoot behind a proxy">
If you're feeling unsecure about exposing Hunchentoot to the wild,
wild Internet or if your Lisp web application is part of a larger
website, you can hide it behind a
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server">proxy server</a>.
One approach that I have used several times is to employ Apache's
<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a>
module with a configuration that looks like this:
<pre><a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass" class="noborder">ProxyPass</a> /hunchentoot http://127.0.0.1:3000/hunchentoot
<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypassreverse" class="noborder">ProxyPassReverse</a> /hunchentoot http://127.0.0.1:3000/hunchentoot</pre>
This will tunnel all requests where the URI path begins with
<code>"/hunchentoot"</code> to a (Hunchentoot) server listening on
port 3000 on the same machine.
<p>
Of course, there are
<a href="http://www.red-bean.com/pipermail/lispweb/2006-October/001342.html">several
other</a> (more lightweight) web proxies that you could use
instead of Apache.
</p>
</clix:subchapter>
</clix:chapter>
<clix:chapter name="mail" title="Support and mailing lists">
For questions, bug reports, feature requests, improvements, or
patches please use the
<a href="http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/tbnl-devel">tbnl-devel
mailing list</a>. If you want to be notified about future
releases subscribe to the
<a href="http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/tbnl-announce">tbnl-announce
mailing list</a>. These mailing lists were made available thanks
to the services of
<a href="http://common-lisp.net/">common-lisp.net</a>. You can
<b>search</b> the devel mailing list
<a href="http://google.com/coop/cse?cx=002927904911724867201%3A0l5rif_cxj0">here</a>
(thanks to Tiarnán Ó Corráin).
<p>
If you want to send patches, please
<a href="http://weitz.de/patches.html">read this first</a>.
</p>
</clix:chapter>
<clix:chapter name="start" title="Your own webserver (the easy teen-age New York version)">
Starting your own web server is pretty easy. Do something like this:
<pre>(hunchentoot:<a class="noborder" href="#start">start</a> (make-instance 'hunchentoot:<a class="noborder" href="#acceptor">easy-acceptor</a> :port 4242))</pre>
That's it. Now you should be able to enter the address
"<a href='http://127.0.0.1:4242/'><code>http://127.0.0.1:4242/</code></a>" in
your browser and see something, albeit nothing very interesting
for now.
<p>
By default, Hunchentoot serves the files from the
<code><i>www/</i></code> directory in its source tree. In the
distribution, that directory contains a HTML version of the
documentation as well as the error templates. The location of
the document root directory can be specified when creating a new
<clix:ref>ACCEPTOR</clix:ref> instance by the way of the
<clix:ref>ACCEPTOR-DOCUMENT-ROOT</clix:ref>. Likewise, the
location of the error template directory can be specified by the
<clix:ref>ACCEPTOR-ERROR-TEMPLATE-DIRECTORY</clix:ref>.
</p>
<p>
The <clix:ref>EASY-ACCEPTOR</clix:ref> class implements a
framework for developing web applications. Handlers are defined
using the <clix:ref>DEFINE-EASY-HANDLER</clix:ref> macro.
Request dispatching is performed according to the list of
dispatch functions in <clix:ref>*DISPATCH-TABLE*</clix:ref>.
Each of the functions on that list is called to determine
whether it wants to handle the request, provided as single
argument. If a dispatcher function wants to handle the request,
it returns another function to actually create the desired page.
</p>
<p>
<clix:ref>DEFINE-EASY-HANDLER</clix:ref> is accompanied by a set
of dispatcher creation functions that can be used to create
dispatchers for standard tasks. These are documented in the <a
class="noborder" href="#easy-handlers">subchapter on easy
handlers</a>
</p>
<p>
Now be a bit more adventurous, try this
<pre>(hunchentoot:<a class="noborder" href="#define-easy-handler">define-easy-handler</a> (say-yo :uri "/yo") (name)
(setf (hunchentoot:<a class="noborder" href="#content-type*">content-type*</a>) "text/plain")
(format nil "Hey~@[ ~A~]!" name))</pre>
and see what happens at "<a href='http://127.0.0.1:4242/yo'><code>http://127.0.0.1:4242/yo</code></a>" or
"<a href='http://127.0.0.1:4242/yo?name=Dude'><code>http://127.0.0.1:4242/yo?name=Dude</code></a>" .
</p>
<p>
Hunchentoot comes with a little example website which you can use
to see if it works and which should also demonstrate a couple of
the things you can do with Hunchentoot. To start the example
website, enter the following code into your listener:
<pre>(<a class="noborder" href="http://common-lisp.net/~mmommer/asdf-howto.shtml#sec11">asdf:oos</a> 'asdf:load-op :hunchentoot-test)</pre>
Now go to "<a href='http://127.0.0.1:4242/hunchentoot/test'><code>http://127.0.0.1:4242/hunchentoot/test</code></a>" and play a bit.
</p>
</clix:chapter>
<clix:chapter name="tutorials" title="Tutorials and add-ons">
<p>
Here are some Hunchentoot tutorials done by others:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.adampetersen.se/articles/lispweb.htm">"Lisp for the Web"</a> by Adam Petersen.
</li>
<li>
Two <a href="http://myblog.rsynnott.com/2007/09/getting-started-with-hunchento.html">getting</a>
<a href="http://myblog.rsynnott.com/2007/10/doing-more-with-hunchentoot-cl-server.html">started</a>
articles by Robert Synnott.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://newartisans.com/2007/11/running-common-lisp-behind-apache/">Running Common Lisp
behind Apache</a> by John Wiegley. (And there's a
<a href="http://newartisans.com/2007/11/a-quick-hunchentoot-primer/">second part</a>.)
</li>
<li>
A <a href="http://www.lispcast.com/index.php/2007/10/lispcast-writing-a-simple-reddit-clone-in-common-lisp/">"LispCast"</a>
by Eric Normand about writing a <a href="http://reddit.com/">Reddit</a> clone using
Hunchentoot. Apparently the first part of a
<a href="http://bc.tech.coop/blog/071028.html">series</a>.
</li>
<li>
A <a href="http://roeim.net/vetle/docs/cl-webapp-intro/">tutorial</a> about
implementing a blog in Common Lisp by Vetle Roeim.
</li>
<li>
A <a href="http://www.jalat.com/blogs/lisp?id=3">tutorial</a> for (an older version of)
Hunchentoot by Asbjørn Bjørnstad.
</li>
<li>
A <a href="http://www.frank-buss.de/lisp/tbnl.html">TBNL tutorial</a> from Frank Buss.
(Hunchentoot is not <a href="http://weitz.de/tbnl/">TBNL</a>, but the two are similar enough
to make the tutorial worthwhile.)
</li>
<li>
For Win32, Bill
Clementson <a href="http://bc.tech.coop/blog/041105.html">explains</a>
how to set up Hunchentoot's
predecessor <a href="http://weitz.de/tbnl/">TBNL</a> with
Apache/mod_lisp. See
also <a href="http://bc.tech.coop/blog/061013.html">http://bc.tech.coop/blog/061013.html</a>.
</li>
</ul>
Check the dates of these tutorials! Many of them might not be a
perfect fit with the latest release of Hunchentoot as there have
been several changes to its API recently, especially in 2009.
Also, the fact that these tutorials are listed here doesn't
necessarily mean that I endorse them or think that they show
idiomatic Lisp code. You'll have to decide yourself if they're
helpful to you or not.
<p>
Here is some software which extends Hunchentoot or is based on it:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Tomo Matsumoto's web application
framework <a href="http://web4r.org/en/">web4r</a>.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-weblocks/">Weblocks</a>
by Slava Akhmechet is a "continuations-based web framework" which is
based on Hunchentoot.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/ht-ajax/ht-ajax.html">HT-AJAX</a> is
an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29">Ajax</a>
framework for Hunchentoot by Ury Marshak.
</li>
<li>
<a
href="http://martin-loetzsch.de/ht-simple-ajax/">HT-SIMPLE-AJAX</a>
is a simplified version of HT-AJAX.
</li>
<li>
Mac Chan
<a href="http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/tbnl-devel/2007-May/001324.html">has
ported <a href="http://lemonodor.com/">John Wiseman</a>'s
<a href="http://www.lemonodor.com/archives/000128.html">Lisp
Server Pages</a> to Hunchentoot.</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://site.znain.com/dl/lisp/hunchentoot-dir-lister/">hunchentoot-dir-lister</a>
is a directory listing addition for Hunchentoot by Dimitre Liotev.
</li>
<li>
Cyrus Harmon's
<a href="http://cyrusharmon.org/blog/display?id=64">nuclblog</a> is a
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog">blog</a> engine which uses Hunchentoot.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://cyrusharmon.org/projects?project=hunchentoot-cgi">hunchentoot-cgi</a>
(also by Cyrus Harmon) provides
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface">CGI</a>
handlers for Hunchentoot.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://weitz.de/cl-webdav/">CL-WEBDAV</a> is a <a href="http://webdav.org/">WebDAV</a>
server based on Hunchentoot.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://restas.lisper.ru/">RESTAS</a> is a web
framework based on Hunchentoot.
</li>
</ul>
</clix:chapter>
<clix:chapter name="reference" title="Function and variable reference">
<clix:subchapter name="acceptors" title="Acceptors">
If you want Hunchentoot to actually do something, you have to create and
<a href="#start">start</a> an <a href="#acceptor">acceptor</a>.
You can also run several acceptors in one image, each one
listening on a different different port.
<clix:class name='acceptor'>
<clix:description>
To create a Hunchentoot webserver, you make an instance of
this class or one of its subclasses and use the generic
function <clix:ref>START</clix:ref> to start it (and
<clix:ref>STOP</clix:ref> to stop it). Use the
<code>:port</code> initarg if you don't want to listen
on the default http port 80. There are other initargs most
of which you probably won't need very often. They are
explained in detail in the docstrings of the slot
definitions for this class.
<p>
Unless you are in a Lisp without MP capabilities, you can
have several active instances of
<clix:ref>ACCEPTOR</clix:ref> (listening on different
ports) at the same time.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:class>
<clix:class name='ssl-acceptor'>
<clix:description>Create and <clix:ref>START</clix:ref> an instance of this class
(instead of <clix:ref>ACCEPTOR</clix:ref>) if you want an https server. There are two
required initargs, <code>:SSL-CERTIFICATE-FILE</code> and <code>:SSL-PRIVATEKEY-FILE</code>, for
pathname designators denoting the certificate file and the key file in
PEM format. On LispWorks, you can have both in one file in which case
the second initarg is optional. You can also use the
<code>:SSL-PRIVATEKEY-PASSWORD</code> initarg to provide a password
(as a string) for the key file (or <code>NIL</code>, the default, for
no password).
<p>
The default port for <clix:ref>SSL-ACCEPTOR</clix:ref> instances is 443 instead of 80
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:class>
<clix:function generic='true' name='start'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>acceptor
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>Starts <clix:arg>acceptor</clix:arg> so that it begins accepting
connections. Returns the acceptor.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function generic='true' name='stop'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>acceptor
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>Stops <clix:arg>acceptor</clix:arg> so that it
no longer accepts requests.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:special-variable name='*acceptor*'>
<clix:description>The current ACCEPTOR object in the context of a request.
</clix:description>
</clix:special-variable>
<clix:readers generic='true'>
<clix:listed-reader generic='true' name='acceptor-address'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>address
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-reader>
<clix:listed-reader generic='true' name='acceptor-port'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>port
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-reader>
<clix:listed-reader generic='true' name='acceptor-read-timeout'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>read-timeout
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-reader>
<clix:listed-reader generic='true' name='acceptor-ssl-certificate-file'>
<clix:lambda-list>ssl-acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>ssl-certificate-file
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-reader>
<clix:listed-reader generic='true' name='acceptor-ssl-privatekey-file'>
<clix:lambda-list>ssl-acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>ssl-privatekey-file
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-reader>
<clix:listed-reader generic='true' name='acceptor-ssl-privatekey-password'>
<clix:lambda-list>ssl-acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>ssl-privatekey-password
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-reader>
<clix:listed-reader generic='true' name='acceptor-ssl-certificate-file'>
<clix:lambda-list>listen-backlog
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>number-of-pending-connections
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-reader>
<clix:description>
Number of pending connections allowed in the listen socket
before the kernel rejects further incoming connections.
Non-LispWorks only.
</clix:description>
<clix:listed-reader generic='true' name='acceptor-write-timeout'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>write-timeout
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-reader>
<clix:description>
These are readers for various slots of <clix:ref>ACCEPTOR</clix:ref>
objects (and some of them obviously only make sense
for <clix:ref>SSL-ACCEPTOR</clix:ref> objects). See the docstrings of
these slots for more information and note that there are corresponding
initargs for all of them.
</clix:description>
</clix:readers>
<clix:accessors generic='true'>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='acceptor-access-log-destination'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>(or pathname null)
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='acceptor-document-root'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>(or pathname null)
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='acceptor-error-template-directory'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>(or pathname null)
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='acceptor-input-chunking-p'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>input-chunking-p
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='acceptor-message-log-destination'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>(or pathname null)
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='acceptor-name'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>name
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='acceptor-output-chunking-p'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>output-chunking-p
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='acceptor-persistent-connections-p'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>persistent-connections-p
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='acceptor-reply-class'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>reply-class
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='acceptor-request-class'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>request-class
</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:description>
These are accessors for various slots of <clix:ref>ACCEPTOR</clix:ref>
objects. See the docstrings of these slots for more information and
note that there are corresponding initargs for all of them.
</clix:description>
</clix:accessors>
<clix:function generic='true' name='acceptor-ssl-p'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>generalized-boolean
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>Returns a true value if <clix:arg>acceptor</clix:arg> uses SSL
connections. The default is to unconditionally return <code>NIL</code> and
subclasses of <clix:ref>ACCEPTOR</clix:ref> must specialize this method to signal that
they're using secure connections - see the <clix:ref>SSL-ACCEPTOR</clix:ref> class.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:special-variable name='*default-connection-timeout*'>
<clix:description>The default connection timeout used when an
acceptor is reading from and writing to a socket stream. Note that
some Lisps allow you to set different timeouts for reading and writing
and you can specify both values via initargs when you create
an <a href="#acceptors">acceptor</a>.
</clix:description>
</clix:special-variable>
<clix:function generic='true' name='acceptor-remove-session'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor session
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>generalized-boolean
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
This function is called whenever a session in
<clix:ref>ACCEPTOR</clix:ref> is being destroyed because of
a session timout or an explicit
<clix:ref>REMOVE-SESSION</clix:ref> call.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name="acceptor-behaviour" title="Customizing acceptor behaviour">
If you want to modify what acceptors do, you should subclass
<clix:ref>ACCEPTOR</clix:ref> (or
<clix:ref>SSL-ACCEPTOR</clix:ref>) and specialize the generic
functions that constitute their behaviour. The life of an
acceptor looks like this: It is started with the function
<clix:ref>START</clix:ref> which immediately calls
<clix:ref>START-LISTENING</clix:ref> and then applies the
function <clix:ref>EXECUTE-ACCEPTOR</clix:ref> to its <a
href="#taskmasters">taskmaster</a>. This function will
eventually call <clix:ref>ACCEPT-CONNECTIONS</clix:ref> which is
responsible for settings things up to wait for clients to
connect. For each connection which comes in,
<clix:ref>HANDLE-INCOMING-CONNECTION</clix:ref> is applied to
the taskmaster which will either call
<clix:ref>PROCESS-CONNECTION</clix:ref> directly,
or will create a thread to call it.
<clix:ref>PROCESS-CONNECTION</clix:ref> calls
<clix:ref>INITIALIZE-CONNECTION-STREAM</clix:ref> before it does
anything else, then it selects and calls a function which
handles the <a href="#requests">request</a>, and finally it
sends the <a href="#replies">reply</a> to the client before it
calls <clix:ref>RESET-CONNECTION-STREAM</clix:ref>. If the
connection is persistent, this procedure is repeated (except for
the intialization step) in a loop until the connection is
closed. The acceptor is stopped with <clix:ref>STOP</clix:ref>.
<p>
If you just want to use the standard acceptors that come with
Hunchentoot, you don't need to know anything about the functions
listed in this section.
</p>
<clix:function generic='true' name='start-listening'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>|
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>Sets up a listen socket for the given acceptor and
enables it to listen to incoming connections. This function is called
from the thread that starts the acceptor initially and may return
errors resulting from the listening operation (like 'address in use'
or similar).
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function generic='true' name='accept-connections'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>nil
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>In a loop, accepts a connection and hands it over
to the acceptor's taskmaster for processing using
<clix:ref>HANDLE-INCOMING-CONNECTION</clix:ref>. On LispWorks, this
function returns immediately, on other Lisps it returns only once the
acceptor has been stopped.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function generic='true' name='process-connection'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor socket
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>nil
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
This function is called by the taskmaster when a new client
connection has been established. Its arguments are the
<clix:ref>ACCEPTOR</clix:ref> object and a LispWorks socket
handle or a usocket socket stream object in
<clix:arg>socket</clix:arg>. It reads the request headers,
sets up the <a href="#requests">request</a> and <a
href="#replies">reply</a> objects, and hands over to
<clix:ref>PROCESS-REQUEST</clix:ref> which calls
<clix:ref>HANDLE-REQUEST</clix:ref> to select and call a
handler for the request and sends its reply to the client.
This is done in a loop until the stream has to be closed or
until a connection timeout occurs. It is probably not a
good idea to re-implement this method until you really,
really know what you're doing.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function generic='true' name='initialize-connection-stream'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor stream
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>stream
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
Can be used to modify the stream which is used to
communicate between client and server before the request is
read. The default method of <clix:ref>ACCEPTOR</clix:ref>
does nothing, but see for example the method defined for
<clix:ref>SSL-ACCEPTOR</clix:ref>. All methods of this
generic function <em>must</em> return the stream to use.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function generic='true' name='reset-connection-stream'>
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor stream
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>stream
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
Resets the stream which is used to communicate
between client and server after one request has been served so that it
can be used to process the next request. This generic function is
called after a request has been processed and <em>must</em> return the
stream.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function name="acceptor-log-access" generic="true">
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor &key return-code content content-length</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:description>
Function to call to log access to the acceptor. The <clix:arg>return-code</clix:arg>,
<clix:arg>content</clix:arg> and <clix:arg>content-length</clix:arg> keyword arguments contain additional
information about the request to log. In addition, it can use the
standard request accessor functions that are available to handler
functions to find out more information about the request.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function name="acceptor-log-message" generic="true">
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor log-level format-string &rest format-arguments</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:description>
Function to call to log messages by the <clix:arg>acceptor</clix:arg>. It must accept
a severity level for the message, which will be one of :ERROR, :INFO,
or :WARNING, a format string and an arbitary number of formatting
arguments.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function name="acceptor-status-message" generic="true">
<clix:lambda-list>acceptor http-return-code content</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:description>
This function is called after the request's handler has been
invoked to convert the <clix:arg>HTTP-STATUS-CODE</clix:arg>
to a HTML message to be displayed to the user. If this
function returns a string, that string is sent to the client
instead of the content produced by the handler, if any.
If an ERROR-TEMPLATE-DIRECTORY is set in the current
acceptor and the directory contains a file corresponding to
HTTP-STATUS-CODE named <code>.html, that file is sent
to the client after variable substitution. Variables are
referenced by ${<variable-name>}.
Additional keyword arguments may be provided which are made
available to the templating logic as substitution variables.
These variables can be interpolated into error message
templates in, which contains the current URL relative to the
server and without GET parameters.
In addition to the variables corresponding to keyword
arguments, the script-name, lisp-implementation-type,
lisp-implementation-version and hunchentoot-version
variables are available.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name="taskmasters" title="Taskmasters">
As a "normal" Hunchentoot user, you can completely ignore
taskmasters and skip this section. But if you're still reading,
here are the dirty details: Each <a
href="#acceptors">acceptor</a> has a taskmaster associated with
it at creation time. It is the taskmaster's job to distribute
the work of accepting and handling incoming connections. The
acceptor calls the taskmaster if appropriate and the taskmaster
calls back into the acceptor. This is done using the generic
functions described in this and the <a
href="#acceptor-behaviour">previous</a> section. Hunchentoot
comes with two standard taskmaster implementations - one (which
is the default used on multi-threaded Lisps) which starts a new
thread for each incoming connection and one which handles all
requests sequentially. It should for example be relatively
straightforward to create a taskmaster which allocates threads
from a fixed pool instead of creating a new one for each
connection.
<p>
You can control the resources consumed by a threaded taskmaster via
two initargs. <code>:max-thread-count</code> lets you set the maximum
number of request threads that can be processes simultaneously. If
this is <code>nil</code>, the is no thread limit imposed.
<code>:max-accept-count</code> lets you set the maximum number of requests
that can be outstanding (i.e. being processed or queued for processing).
If <code>:max-thread-count</code> is supplied and <code>:max-accept-count</code>
is <code>NIL</code>, then a <clix:ref>+HTTP-SERVICE-UNAVAILABLE+</clix:ref>
error will be generated if there are more than the max-thread-count
threads processing requests. If both <code>:max-thread-count</code>
and <code>:max-accept-count</code> are supplied, then max-thread-count
must be less than max-accept-count; if more than max-thread-count
requests are being processed, then requests up to max-accept-count
will be queued until a thread becomes available. If more than
max-accept-count requests are outstanding, then a <clix:ref>+HTTP-SERVICE-UNAVAILABLE+</clix:ref>
error will be generated.
In a load-balanced environment with multiple Hunchentoot servers, it's
reasonable to provide <code>:max-thread-count</code> but leave
<code>:max-accept-count</code> null. This will immediately result
in <clix:ref>+HTTP-SERVICE-UNAVAILABLE+</clix:ref> when one server is
out of resources, so the load balancer can try to find another server.
In an environment with a single Hunchentoot server, it's reasonable
to provide both <code>:max-thread-count</code> and a somewhat larger value
for <code>:max-accept-count</code>. This will cause a server that's almost
out of resources to wait a bit; if the server is completely out of resources,
then the reply will be <clix:ref>+HTTP-SERVICE-UNAVAILABLE+</clix:ref>.
The default for these values is 100 and 120, respectively.
</p>
<p>
If you want to implement your own taskmasters, you should subclass
<clix:ref>TASKMASTER</clix:ref> or one of its subclasses,
<clix:ref>SINGLE-THREADED-TASKMASTER</clix:ref> or
<clix:ref>ONE-THREAD-PER-CONNECTION-TASKMASTER</clix:ref>, and
specialize the generic functions in this section.
</p>
<clix:class name='taskmaster'>
<clix:description>
An instance of this class is responsible for distributing
the work of handling requests for its acceptor. This is an
"abstract" class in the sense that usually only instances of
subclasses of <clix:ref>TASKMASTER</clix:ref> will be used.
</clix:description>
</clix:class>
<clix:class name='one-thread-per-connection-taskmaster'>
<clix:description>
A taskmaster that starts one thread for listening to
incoming requests and one thread for each incoming
connection.
<p>
This is the default taskmaster implementation for multi-threaded Lisp
implementations.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:class>
<clix:class name='single-threaded-taskmaster'>
<clix:description>
A taskmaster that runs synchronously in the
thread where the <clix:ref>START</clix:ref> function was invoked (or
in the case of LispWorks in the thread started
by <a href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw51/LWRM/html/lwref-61.htm#marker-910861"><code>COMM:START-UP-SERVER</code></a>).
This is the simplest possible taskmaster implementation in that its
methods do nothing but calling their acceptor "sister"
methods - <clix:ref>EXECUTE-ACCEPTOR</clix:ref> calls <clix:ref>ACCEPT-CONNECTIONS</clix:ref>,
<clix:ref>HANDLE-INCOMING-CONNECTION</clix:ref> calls <clix:ref>PROCESS-CONNECTION</clix:ref>.
</clix:description>
</clix:class>
<clix:function generic='true' name='execute-acceptor'>
<clix:lambda-list>taskmaster
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>result
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>This is a callback called by the acceptor once it
has performed all initial processing to start listening for incoming
connections (see <clix:ref>START-LISTENING</clix:ref>). It usually calls the
<clix:ref>ACCEPT-CONNECTIONS</clix:ref> method of the acceptor, but depending on the
taskmaster instance the method might be called from a new thread.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function generic='true' name='handle-incoming-connection'>
<clix:lambda-list>taskmaster socket
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>result
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
This function is called by the acceptor to start
processing of requests on a new incoming connection. <clix:arg>socket</clix:arg> is the
usocket instance that represents the new connection (or a socket
handle on LispWorks). The taskmaster starts processing requests on
the incoming connection by calling the <clix:ref>PROCESS-CONNECTION</clix:ref>
method of the acceptor instance. The <clix:arg>socket</clix:arg> argument is passed to
<clix:ref>PROCESS-CONNECTION</clix:ref> as an argument.
If the taskmaster is a multi-threaded taskmaster, <clix:ref>HANDLE-INCOMING-THREAD</clix:ref>
will call <clix:ref>CREATE-TASKMASTER-THREAD</clix:ref>, which will call
<clix:ref>PROCESS-CONNECTION</clix:ref> in a new thread.
<clix:ref>HANDLE-INCOMING-THREAD</clix:ref> might issue a
<clix:ref>+HTTP-SERVICE-UNAVAILABLE+</clix:ref> error
if there are too many request threads or it might block waiting for a
request thread to finish.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function generic='true' name='create-taskmaster-thread'>
<clix:lambda-list>taskmaster socket
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>thread
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>This function is called by <clix:ref>HANDLE-INCOMING-THREAD</clix:ref>
to create a new thread which calls <clix:ref>PROCESS-CONNECTION</clix:ref>.
If you specialize this function, you must be careful to have the thread
call <clix:ref>DECREMENT-TASKMASTER-REQUEST-COUNT</clix:ref> before
it exits. A typical method will look like this:
<pre>(defmethod create-taskmaster-thread ((taskmaster monitor-taskmaster) socket)
(bt:make-thread
(lambda ()
(with-monitor-error-handlers
(unwind-protect
(with-monitor-variable-bindings
(process-connection (taskmaster-acceptor taskmaster) socket))
(decrement-taskmaster-request-count taskmaster))))))</pre>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function generic='true' name='shutdown'>
<clix:lambda-list>taskmaster
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>taskmaster
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>Shuts down the taskmaster, i.e. frees all resources
that were set up by it. For example, a multi-threaded taskmaster
might terminate all threads that are currently associated with it.
This function is called by the acceptor's <clix:ref>STOP</clix:ref> method.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:accessor generic='true' name='taskmaster-acceptor'>
<clix:lambda-list>taskmaster
</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>acceptor
</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
This is an accessor for the slot of a <clix:ref>TASKMASTER</clix:ref>
object that links back to the <a href="#acceptors">acceptor</a> it is
associated with.
</clix:description>
</clix:accessor>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name="request-dispatch" title="Request dispatch and handling">
The main job of <clix:ref>HANDLE-REQUEST</clix:ref> is to select
and call a function which handles the request, i.e. which looks
at the data the client has sent and prepares an appropriate
reply to send back. This is by default implemented as follows:
<p>