[Haskell-cafe] ANN: HTTPbis / HTTP-4000.x package available

[Levi Greenspan]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Sigbjorn Finne
<sigbjorn.finne at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm guessing that you are reading something different into that
> than what's intended - it's "client-side" in the sense that it can
> only issue web requests and handle their responses. i.e., it
> doesn't handle incoming HTTP requests and issue suitable
> responses. Web server implementation is an interesting problem
> in its own right, and many packages/frameworks do an
> admirable job of that already, so no plans (by me) to tackle
> that via the HTTP package.
>
> But, utilizing the HTTP package as part of any web app you
> expose on a web server is very much on and not out of bounds.
> Go for it! :-)
>
> Does that answer your Q? (my apologies if I'm stating the
> obvious above.)

Thanks for your reply Sigbjorn. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems
to me that by using sockets for incoming connections and receiveHTTP
:: Stream s => s -> IO (Result Request_String) and respondHTTP ::
Stream s => s -> Response_String -> IO () from Network.HTTP.Stream
that I could easily handle incoming requests and send responses back.
OK, I need to build up the response myself, but that would be no real
limitation for me.

Thanks again,
Levi