Comments on: A Simple Perl Server

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:39:04 +0000

@Gabriel Saldana – thanks for the pointers. For making (make-network-process) asynchronous, how far did you get?

@phayes – that is pretty cool, and gives me the idea to make a FastCGI version of emacs. (just kidding!)

@Saint Aardvark – I didn’t think of netcat (and by all the work you did you’re being sarcastic right? ) But I think that the Perl has the advantage as I’ll be able to emulate a crappy internet connection by adding a sleep line to my server when I’m looking at the asynchronous stuff.

By: Saint Aardvark

Saint Aardvark — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:28:13 +0000

As for a simple server…hate to say it after all the work you did, but have you tried netcat? It looks pretty darned close to what you did in Perl.

By: phayes

phayes — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:02:49 +0000

Speaking of which there is (make-network-process :server t …) now and at least one “simple server to play with” can be had without leaving emacs:

http://repo.or.cz/w/muse-el.git?a=blob;f=contrib/httpd.el;h=083dcb6575fdddfccc4fb4cb7ea4db6476f4b174;hb=HEAD

By: Gabriel Saldana

Gabriel Saldana — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:39:53 +0000

For networking there’s url.el package or using the functions:

(open-network-stream) which is synchronous and
(make-network-process) which can be asynchronous if the parameter is set. I haven’t been able to make the last one work, but check it out yourself.

If you make it work, please let me know the syntax. I’m trying to make emacs identica-mode ( http://blog.nethazard.net/identica-mode-for-emacs/ ) asynchronous, so that it won’t freeze emacs when internet connection is crappy.