Re: [Chicken-users] Unfair question: best Lisp for web development?

[Graham Fawcett]

Hi Jim,

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Jim Ursetto <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2/27/08, Graham Fawcett <address@hidden> wrote:
>  > Personally, I don't use Spiffy; I wrote a custom framework instead.
>
>  Would you mind expanding a little on your custom framework and
>  whether it resides behind another webserver via mod_proxy, scgi,
>  fastcgi, cgi, or is itself the main webserver?

Sure. My first version was an SCGI server, but later I switched to
HTTP. I usually host behind Apache, and moving from mod_scgi to
mod_proxy was pretty straightforward, and in return it's much easier
to test when Apache isn't running. I also like that using HTTP as the
only protocol means that you can deploy apps in small-scale,
standalone situations (e.g. "localhost" workstation apps).

>  Also, do you handle requests with one request per process
>  or with SRFI-18 threads?

SRFI-18 threads, using one thread per connection; so, possibly
handling several requests on a keep-alive connection. I find this
works really well. I was going to move to a preforking approach
eventually, and had once started on a single-threaded, asynchronous
design. But in production, I've yet to find a fault with the threaded
model, so those projects are on the backburner. One day I'll finish
the preforking one though, I have an app in mind that will need that.

I'm currently "extracting" the framework from an application I'm
working on, and modularizing it. If you're interested, I will share
the code.

Best,
Graham