Hunchentoot and CCL on Windows. Take 2.

I recently posted a brief workaround for a bug in CCL on MS Windows which prevented Hunchentoot from responding to HTTP requests. 

Shortly after posting this I, and everyone else on the openmcl-devel mailing list, received an email from R. Matthew Emerson who has informed us that this issue was resolved in their SVN repository over a week ago and that CCL no longer needs the workaround I posted.

So for all those CCL+Windows users, you can now

svn update

and

(rebuild-ccl :clean t)

and ignore my previous post.

Hunchentoot, CCL and Windows

It's been a couple of months now and I've been warming to CCL, so much so in fact, that it has replaced SBCL as my `other` CL implementation. If you've never used it, it is an Open Source Common Lisp which runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in both 32 and 64 bit modes and supports threading on all 3 of these platforms.

There is however a small issue when running Hunchentoot with CCL on Windows; you will notice when connecting to a CCL+Hunchentoot server that it never responds with any content but hangs indefinitely. This is caused by a bug in the CCL Windows timeout handling which requires a small workaround by the user.

Fortunately the workaround is straightforward; simply start up Hunchentoot with the following extra parameters:

> (hunchentoot:start (make-instance 'hunchentoot:acceptor :port 8080 :read-timeout nil :write-timeout nil))

And you are on your way.