Re: https client

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Lucas Buchala wrote:
> It seems to expect an URL with prefix "http://" but a secure URL with
> prefix "https://" is found in the "Location:" header instead, so it
> ends up concatenating the strings:

And clisp does not yet have a https client.

More and more of the web switches over from http to https. It was easy to
write an http client in a couple of lines of code (like in clhs.lisp).
But for https, one needs SSL support with all its intricacies (TLS protocol
versions, certificate checking etc.).

Anyone wants to contribute a clisp module that implements a http/https client?
It's not needed to write the code from scratch; such code already exists
(under usable licenses).

According to [1], the most compelling choices would be:
  * drakma
  * drakma-async, based on cl-async, itself based on libuv.

Any takers?

Bruno

[1] http://www.cliki.net/HTTP%20client