CLOCC - Common Lisp Open Code Collection

Sorry - replied directly to Ray, am now compying to list.

>I think it's overkill for most apps and I also see the point about it
being considered hacking (I write Internet applications for a living -
these need to be able to get through firewalls and this kind of thing is
"legitimate" when they are being used by a company that has approved them -
I say this to point out that I am not a hacker (or rather, not a cracker)).
>
>You would also be faced with a chicken + egg situation - not able to
download the library until you had to download a special piece of software
for downloading.
>
>On the other hand, it does provide bi-directional data transfer.  There's
not many other ways of doing that from behind a firewall (you can use http,
but every request going out is a new connection, which means you have to
worry about state and performance takes a hit).
>
>Cheers,
>Andrew
>
>PS Your proxy will provde SSL support if you can see "secure" web pages
(eg account details at amazon).
>
>At 11:50 AM 2/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>We have https here, but hacking these things is also a good way to get
>>fired.  I like my job, so I won't be doing that.
>>
>>Plain http is good.  If the company opens up an ssh port, that would
>>be good too.  Hacking https to sneak stuff through is a bad idea.
> 
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