[tbnl-devel] Re: Web programming question

[Dan Beauchesne]

On 7/3/06, Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 13:12:57 +0200, Toby <tobia.conforto at linux.it> wrote:
>
> > Otherwise, if the main list is mutating all the time, one way to do
> > it is: 1. make a (shallow? deep?) copy of the main list; 2. use the
> > copy to generate the links; 3. store the copy in a session variable;
> > 4. use the session variable in the receiving handler.
>
> Doing this with sessions is a good idea IMHO.  I've done something
> similar myself several times.  You can even create something like
> "private" (encoded) links which translate to arbitrary Lisp code and
> keep a table which translates from URLs to the corresponding actions
> in your session.

Cool, thanks for the great ideas.

Also, in regards to the UTF-8 + SBCL + content-length problem, I'm
curious if Dr. Weitz's Lisp (Allegro?) does not have this problem?
I've been looking for a good excuse to grab the student edition, maybe
this is it :)

Thanks again,

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Dan Beauchesne
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