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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="clixdoc.xsl" ?>
<clix:documentation xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:clix='http://bknr.net/clixdoc'>
<clix:title>Drakma - A Common Lisp HTTP client</clix:title>
<clix:short-description>
Drakma is a full-featured HTTP client implemented in Common Lisp.
It knows how to handle <a href="#chunked">HTTP/1.1 chunking</a>,
<a href="#arg-keep-alive">persistent connections</a>, <a
href="#ex-reuse-connection">re-usable sockets</a>, <a
href="#ex-chunked-https">SSL</a>, <a
href="#ex-assemble-request-content">continuable uploads</a>, <a
href="#arg-parameters">file uploads</a>, <a
href="#arg-cookie-jar">cookies</a>, and more.
</clix:short-description>
<h2>Drakma - A Common Lisp HTTP client</h2>
<blockquote>
<clix:chapter name='abstract' title='Abstract'>
<p>
Drakma is a full-featured HTTP client implemented in Common
Lisp. It knows how to handle <a href="#chunked">HTTP/1.1
chunking</a>, <a href="#arg-keep-alive">persistent
connections</a>, <a href="#ex-reuse-connection">re-usable
sockets</a>, <a href="#ex-chunked-https">SSL</a>, <a
href="#ex-assemble-request-content">continuable uploads</a>,
<a href="#arg-parameters">file uploads</a>, <a
href="#arg-cookie-jar">cookies</a>, and more.
</p>
<p>
The code comes with a <a
href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php">BSD-style
license</a> so you can basically do with it whatever you want.
</p>
</clix:chapter>
</blockquote>
<clix:chapter name='contents' title='Contents'></clix:chapter>
<clix:contents></clix:contents>
<clix:chapter name='examples' title='Examples'>
<style type="text/css">
body { margin-left: 2em; }
p, blockquote { max-width: 45em; }
pre { margin-left: 3em; margin-right: 3em; word-wrap: break-word; overflow-x: auto; background: #eee; }
.arglist-spacer { margin-left: 6em; max-width: 45em; }
.repl-output { color: black; }
.repl-input { font-weight: bold; }
.headers-out { color: SteelBlue; }
.headers-in { color: SeaGreen; }
</style>
<p>
Here is a collection of example uses of Drakma to which
demonstrate some of its features. In the examples, text is
color coded to indicate where it comes from (<tt><span
class="repl-input">REPL input</span>, <span
class="repl-output">REPL output</span>, <span
class="headers-out">HTTP headers sent</span></tt> and <tt><span
class="headers-in">HTTP headers received</span></tt>). Headers
particularly relevant to the example at hand are shown <tt><span
class="headers-out"><b>in</b></span> <span
class="headers-in"><b>bold</b></span></tt>.
</p>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-loading' title='Loading Drakma with Quicklisp'>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(ql:quickload :drakma)</span>
<span class="repl-output">To load "drakma":
Load 1 ASDF system:
drakma
; Loading "drakma"
To load "cl+ssl":
Load 1 ASDF system:
flexi-streams
Install 8 Quicklisp releases:
alexandria babel bordeaux-threads cffi cl+ssl
trivial-features trivial-garbage trivial-gray-streams
...
; Loading "drakma"
(:DRAKMA)
</span>
</pre>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-logging' title='Log headers to the REPL output stream'>
<p>
In some of the following examples, the headers exchanged
between Drakma and the HTTP server should be shown, for
illustration purposes. This can be achieved like so:
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(setf drakma:*header-stream* *standard-output*)</span>
<span class="repl-output">#<SYNONYM-STREAM to *TERMINAL-IO* #x3020006AC7DD></span>
</pre>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-request-redirect' title='Requesting a page with redirection'>
<p>
Request a page. Note how Drakma automatically follows the 301
redirect and how the fourth return value shows the
<em>new</em> URI.
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "http://lisp.org/")</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: lisp.org
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
Connection: close
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 <b>307 Temporary Redirect</b>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:01:56 GMT
Connection: Close
Server: AllegroServe/1.2.65
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<b>LOCATION: http://lisp.org/index.html</b>
</span>
<span class="headers-out"><b>GET /index.html HTTP/1.1</b>
Host: lisp.org
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
Connection: close
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:01:56 GMT
Connection: Close
Server: AllegroServe/1.2.65
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 459
LAST-MODIFIED: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:26:26 GMT
</span>
<span class="repl-output">"<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>John McCarthy, 1927-2011</title>
<STYLE type=\"text/css\">
BODY {text-align: center}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<h1>John McCarthy</h1>
<img src=\"jmccolor.jpg\" alt=\"a picture of John McCarthy, from his website\"/>
<h3>1927-2011</h3>
<br><br>
<a href=\"http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/\">John McCarthy's Home Page</a><br>
<a href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/october/john-mccarthy-obit-102511.html\">Obituary</a>
</BODY>
</HTML>
"
200
((:DATE . "Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:01:56 GMT") (:CONNECTION . "Close") (:SERVER . "AllegroServe/1.2.65")
(:CONTENT-TYPE . "text/html") (:CONTENT-LENGTH . "459") (:LAST-MODIFIED . "Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:26:26 GMT"))
#<URI http://lisp.org/index.html>
#<FLEXI-STREAMS:FLEXI-IO-STREAM #x30200155DB1D>
T
" OK"</span>
</pre>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-charsets' title='Requesting a page containing non-ASCII characters'>
<p>
Drakma automatically interprets the 'charset=utf-8' part
correctly.
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(subseq (<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/digraphs.txt") 0 298)</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET /~mgk25/ucs/examples/digraphs.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.cl.cam.ac.uk
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
Connection: close
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:15:04 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
Last-Modified: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:13:43 GMT
ETag: "17cd62-298-466e6dbcd03c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 664
X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge
Connection: close
<b>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8</b>
</span>
<span class="repl-output">"Latin Digraphs and Ligatures in ISO10646-1
A short table of ligatures and digraphs follows. Some of these may not be
ligatures/digraphs in the technical sense, (for example, æ is a seperate
letter in English), but visually they behave that way.
AÆE : U+00C6
aæe : U+00E6
ſßs : U+00DF
IIJJ : U+0132"</span>
</pre>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-binary-data' title='Requesting binary data'>
<p>
For non-textual content types, a vector of octets is returned.
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "https://api.github.com/repos/edicl/drakma/git/tags/tag-does-not-exist")</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET /repos/edicl/drakma/git/tags/tag-does-not-exist HTTP/1.1
Host: api.github.com
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (SBCL 1.1.1.31.master.2-9fac43f-dirty; Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
Connection: close
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: nginx
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:37:31 GMT
<b>Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8</b>
Connection: close
Status: 404 Not Found
X-GitHub-Media-Type: github.beta
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 48
X-RateLimit-Limit: 60
Content-Length: 23
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Cache-Control:
</span>
<span class="repl-output">#(123 34 109 101 115 115 97 103 101 34 58 34 78 111 116 32 70 111 117 110 100 34 125)
404
((:SERVER . "nginx") (:DATE . "Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:37:31 GMT") (:CONTENT-TYPE . "application/json; charset=utf-8")
(:CONNECTION . "close") (:STATUS . "404 Not Found") (:X-GITHUB-MEDIA-TYPE . "github.beta") (:X-RATELIMIT-REMAINING . "48")
(:X-RATELIMIT-LIMIT . "60") (:CONTENT-LENGTH . "23") (:X-CONTENT-TYPE-OPTIONS . "nosniff") (:CACHE-CONTROL . ""))
#<PURI:URI https://api.github.com/repos/edicl/drakma/git/tags/tag-does-not-exist>
#<FLEXI-STREAMS:FLEXI-IO-STREAM {101C40C043}>
T
"Not Found"</span>
<span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(<a href="http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/#octets-to-string" target="_new">flexi-streams:octets-to-string</a> *)</span>
<span class="repl-output">"{\"message\":\"Not Found\"}"</span></pre>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-chunked-https' title='Chunked transfers and HTTPS'>
<p>
Request a page using the HTTPS protocol. Also note that the
server uses <a name="chunked"
href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.6.1">chunked
transfer encoding</a> for its reply
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(ql:quickload :cl-ppcre)</span>
<span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(cl-ppcre:scan-to-strings "(?s)You have.*your data."
(<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "https://www.fortify.net/cgi/ssl_2.pl"))</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET /cgi/ssl_2.pl HTTP/1.1
Host: www.fortify.net
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
Connection: close
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:15:31 GMT
Server: Apache
Connection: close
<b>Transfer-Encoding: chunked</b>
Content-Type: text/html
</span>
<span class="repl-output">"You have connected to this web server using the RC4-SHA encryption cipher
with a key length of 128 bits.
<p>
This is a high-grade encryption connection, regarded by most experts as being suitable
for sending or receiving even the most sensitive or valuable information
across a network.
<p>
In a crude analogy, using this cipher is similar to sending or storing your data inside
a high quality safe - compared to an export-grade cipher which is similar to using
a paper envelope to protect your data."
#()</span>
</pre>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-fake-ua' title='Faking a user agent header'>
<p>
Some servers adapt their behavior according to the Browser
that is used. Drakma can claim to be i.e. MS Internet
Explorer.
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(cl-ppcre:scan-to-strings "<h4>.*" (<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "http://whatsmyuseragent.com/" <a href="#arg-user-agent">:user-agent :explorer</a>))</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: whatsmyuseragent.com
<b>User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)</b>
Accept: */*
Connection: close
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:23:50 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
</span>
<span class="repl-output">"<h4>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)</h4>"
#()</span>
</pre>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-post-and-cookie' title='Posting data and using cookies'>
<p>
Drakma can send parameters in a POST request and knows how to
deal with <a href="#cookie">cookies</a>. Note how Drakma
sends the cookie back in the second request.
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(let ((cookie-jar (make-instance <a href="#cookie-jar">'drakma:cookie-jar</a>)))
(<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "http://www.phpsecurepages.com/test/test.php"
<a href="#arg-method">:method :post</a>
<a href="#arg-parameters">:parameters '(("entered_login" . "test")
("entered_password" . "test"))</a>
<a href="#arg-cookie-jar">:cookie-jar cookie-jar</a>)
(<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "http://www.phpsecurepages.com/test/test2.php"
<a href="#arg-cookie-jar">:cookie-jar cookie-jar</a>)
(<a href="#cookie-jar-cookies">drakma:cookie-jar-cookies</a> cookie-jar))</span>
<span class="headers-out">POST /test/test.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.phpsecurepages.com
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 40
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:25:13 GMT
Server:
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
<b>Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=vijk3706eojs7n8u5cdpi3ju05; path=/</b>
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Powered-By: PleskLin
Content-Length: 4479
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET /test/test2.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.phpsecurepages.com
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
<b>Cookie: PHPSESSID=vijk3706eojs7n8u5cdpi3ju05</b>
Connection: close
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:25:16 GMT
Server:
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Powered-By: PleskLin
Content-Length: 4479
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
</span>
<span class="repl-output">(#<COOKIE PHPSESSID=vijk3706eojs7n8u5cdpi3ju05; path=/; domain=www.phpsecurepages.com>)</span>
</pre>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-reuse-connection' title='Reusing a connection to a server'>
<p>
Drakma can <a name="re-use">use</a> a connection to a server for multiple requests.
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(let ((stream (nth-value 4 (<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "http://www.lispworks.com/" <a href="#arg-close">:close nil</a>))))
(nth-value 2 (<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/index.html"
<a href="#arg-stream">:stream stream</a>)))</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.lispworks.com
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:25:56 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/1.0.1c mod_apreq2-20051231/2.6.0 mod_perl/2.0.5 Perl/v5.8.9
Last-Modified: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:27:40 GMT
ETag: "336280-28eb-4ceec5c1f4700"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 10475
Content-Type: text/html
</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET /success-stories/index.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.lispworks.com
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
<b>Connection: close</b>
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:25:56 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/1.0.1c mod_apreq2-20051231/2.6.0 mod_perl/2.0.5 Perl/v5.8.9
Last-Modified: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:28:52 GMT
ETag: "336386-2940-4ceec6069e900"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 10560
<b>Connection: close</b>
Content-Type: text/html
</span>
<span class="repl-output">((:DATE . "Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:25:56 GMT")
(:SERVER . "Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/1.0.1c mod_apreq2-20051231/2.6.0 mod_perl/2.0.5 Perl/v5.8.9")
(:LAST-MODIFIED . "Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:28:52 GMT") (:ETAG . "\"336386-2940-4ceec6069e900\"") (:ACCEPT-RANGES . "bytes")
(:CONTENT-LENGTH . "10560") (:CONNECTION . "close") (:CONTENT-TYPE . "text/html"))</span>
</pre>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-basic-auth' title='Basic Authorization'>
<p>
Drakma supports basic authorization. In this example, we use
a locally running <a
href="http://weitz.de/hunchentoot">Hunchentoot</a> server.
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(ql:quickload :hunchentoot-test)</span>
<span class="repl-output">To load "hunchentoot-test":
Load 4 ASDF systems:
cl-ppcre cl-who drakma hunchentoot
Install 1 Quicklisp release:
hunchentoot
...
; Loading "hunchentoot-test"
(:HUNCHENTOOT-TEST)
? </span><span class="repl-input">(hunchentoot:start (make-instance 'hunchentoot:easy-acceptor :port 4242))</span>
<span class="repl-output">#<EASY-ACCEPTOR (host *, port 4242)>
? </span><span class="repl-input">(nth-value 1 (<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "http://localhost:4242/hunchentoot/test/authorization.html"))</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET /hunchentoot/test/authorization.html HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:4242
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
Connection: close
</span>
<span class="repl-output">127.0.0.1 - [2012-12-09 09:27:40] "GET /hunchentoot/test/authorization.html HTTP/1.1" 401 543 "-" "Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)"</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 <b>401 Authorization Required</b>
Content-Length: 543
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:27:40 GMT
Server: Hunchentoot 1.2.5
Connection: Close
Www-Authenticate: Basic realm="Hunchentoot"
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
</span>
<span class="repl-output">401
? </span><span class="repl-input">(nth-value 1 (<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "http://localhost:4242/hunchentoot/test/authorization.html"
<a href="#arg-basic-authorization">:basic-authorization '("nanook" "igloo")</a>))</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET /hunchentoot/test/authorization.html HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:4242
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
<b>Authorization: Basic bmFub29rOmlnbG9v</b>
Accept: */*
Connection: close
</span>
<span class="repl-output">127.0.0.1 nanook [2012-12-09 09:28:15] "GET /hunchentoot/test/authorization.html HTTP/1.1" 200 907 "-" "Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)"</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 907
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:28:15 GMT
Server: Hunchentoot 1.2.5
Connection: Close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
</span>
<span class="repl-output">200</span>
</pre>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-response-stream' title='Reading the response from a stream'>
<p>
Drakma can return a stream to the application so that the
reply is not completely buffered in memory first.
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(let ((stream (<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "https://api.github.com/orgs/edicl/public_members"
<b>:want-stream t</b>)))
(setf (<a href="http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/#flexi-stream-external-format" target="_new">flexi-streams:flexi-stream-external-format</a> stream) :utf-8)
(<a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/yason/#parse" target="_new">yason:parse</a> stream :object-as :plist))</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET /orgs/edicl/public_members HTTP/1.1
Host: api.github.com
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (SBCL 1.1.1.31.master.2-9fac43f-dirty; Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
Connection: close
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:27:34 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Connection: close
Status: 200 OK
Last-Modified: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:39:14 GMT
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-RateLimit-Limit: 60
X-GitHub-Media-Type: github.beta
Vary: Accept
Content-Length: 1899
Cache-Control: public, max-age=60, s-maxage=60
ETag: "66a5dd35e79146a53029a1807293f9d3"
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 56
</span>
<span class="repl-output">(("type" "User" "repos_url" "https://api.github.com/users/hanshuebner/repos" "followers_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/hanshuebner/followers" "login" "hanshuebner" "gists_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/hanshuebner/gists{/gist_id}" "following_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/hanshuebner/following" "events_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/hanshuebner/events{/privacy}" "organizations_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/hanshuebner/orgs" "received_events_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/hanshuebner/received_events" "url"
"https://api.github.com/users/hanshuebner" "avatar_url"
"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/280d76aa82179ae04550534649de1e6e?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png"
"subscriptions_url" "https://api.github.com/users/hanshuebner/subscriptions" "starred_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/hanshuebner/starred{/owner}{/repo}" "id" 108751 "gravatar_id"
"280d76aa82179ae04550534649de1e6e")
("type" "User" "repos_url" "https://api.github.com/users/nhabedi/repos" "followers_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/nhabedi/followers" "login" "nhabedi" "gists_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/nhabedi/gists{/gist_id}" "following_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/nhabedi/following" "events_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/nhabedi/events{/privacy}" "organizations_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/nhabedi/orgs" "received_events_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/nhabedi/received_events" "url"
"https://api.github.com/users/nhabedi" "avatar_url"
"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24c09c7b0b2c0481283d854bacdd7926?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png"
"subscriptions_url" "https://api.github.com/users/nhabedi/subscriptions" "starred_url"
"https://api.github.com/users/nhabedi/starred{/owner}{/repo}" "id" 537618 "gravatar_id"
"24c09c7b0b2c0481283d854bacdd7926"))</span>
</pre>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-assemble-request-content' title='Piecemeal assembly of request contents'>
<p>
Request contents can be assembled from various sources, and
chunked encoding can be used by request bodies. Many servers
do not support chunked encoding for request bodies, though.
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(let ((temp-file (ensure-directories-exist #p"/tmp/quux.txt"))
(continuation (<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "http://localhost:4242/hunchentoot/test/parameter_latin1_post.html"
<a href="#arg-method">:method :post</a>
<a href="#arg-content">:content :continuation</a>)))
(funcall continuation "foo=" t)
(funcall continuation (list (char-code #\z) (char-code #\a)) t)
(funcall continuation (lambda (stream)
(write-char #\p stream)) t)
(with-open-file (out temp-file
:direction :output
:if-does-not-exist :create
:if-exists :supersede)
(write-string "p" out))
(funcall continuation temp-file t)
(cl-ppcre:scan-to-strings "zappzerapp" (funcall continuation "zerapp")))</span>
<span class="headers-out">POST /hunchentoot/test/parameter_latin1_post.html HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:4242
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
<b>Transfer-Encoding: chunked</b>
</span>
<span class="repl-output">127.0.0.1 - [2012-12-09 10:06:44] "POST /hunchentoot/test/parameter_latin1_post.html HTTP/1.1" 200 1312 "-" "Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)"</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 1312
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 09:06:44 GMT
Server: Hunchentoot 1.2.5
Connection: Close
Last-Modified: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 09:06:44 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
</span>
<span class="repl-output">"zappzerapp"
#()</span>
</pre>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name='ex-partial-transfers' title='Partial transfers'>
<p>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.35"
target="_new">Partial transfers</a> of resources are possible.
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(cl-ppcre:regex-replace-all
"<.*?>"
(format nil "~A~%~A"
(<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "http://members.shaw.ca/mitb/hunchentoot.html"
<a href="#arg-range">:range '(998 1034)</a>)
(<a href="#http-request">drakma:http-request</a> "http://members.shaw.ca/mitb/hunchentoot.html"
<a href="#arg-range">:range '(1213 1249)</a>))
"")</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET /mitb/hunchentoot.html HTTP/1.1
Host: members.shaw.ca
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
Connection: close
<b>Range: bytes=998-1034</b>
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 09:16:16 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.20 (Unix) mod_ldap_userdir/1.1.17
Last-Modified: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:22:04 GMT
ETag: "3b7eed-3238-4bb3c3e453f00"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 37
<b>Content-Range: bytes 998-1034/12856</b>
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
</span>
<span class="headers-out">GET /mitb/hunchentoot.html HTTP/1.1
Host: members.shaw.ca
User-Agent: Drakma/1.3.0 (Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.8-r15286M (DarwinX8664); Darwin; 12.2.0; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
Accept: */*
Connection: close
<b>Range: bytes=1213-1249</b>
</span>
<span class="headers-in">HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 09:16:16 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.20 (Unix) mod_ldap_userdir/1.1.17
Last-Modified: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:22:04 GMT
ETag: "3b7eed-3238-4bb3c3e453f00"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 37
<b>Content-Range: bytes 1213-1249/12856</b>
Content-Type: text/html
</span>
<span class="repl-output">"DRAKMA (Queen of Cosmic Greed)
HUNCHENTOOT (The Giant Spider)"
T</span>
</pre>
</clix:subchapter>
</clix:chapter>
<clix:chapter name="install" title="Download and Installation">
<p>
Drakma depends on a number of open source libraries, so the
preferred method to download, compile and load it is via <a
href="http://www.quicklisp.org/">Quicklisp</a>. Drakma's
current version number is <clix:library-version/>.
</p>
<p>
The canonical location for the latest version of Drakma is <a
href="http://weitz.de/files/drakma.tar.gz">http://weitz.de/files/drakma.tar.gz</a>.
</p>
</clix:chapter>
<clix:chapter name="patches" title="Development and patches">
<p>
The development version of Drakma can be found <a
href="https://github.com/edicl/drakma" target="_new">on
github</a>. Please use the github issue tracking system to
submit bug reports. Patches are welcome, please use <a
href="https://github.com/edicl/drakma/pulls">GitHub pull
requests</a>. If you want to make a change, please <a
href="http://weitz.de/patches.html" target="_new">read this
first</a>.
</p>
</clix:chapter>
<clix:chapter name="dictionary" title="The Drakma dictionary">
<clix:subchapter name="dict-request" title="Requests">
<p>
The <clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref> function is the heart of
Drakma. It is used to send requests to web servers and will
either return the message body of the server's reply or (if
the user so wishes) a stream one can read from. The wealth of
keyword parameters might look a bit intimidating first, but
you will rarely need more than two or three of them - the
default behavior of Drakma is (hopefully) designed to do The
Right Thing[TM] in most cases.
</p>
<p>
You can use the <clix:ref>*HEADER-STREAM*</clix:ref> variable
to debug requests handled by Drakma in a way similar to <a
href="http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/">LiveHTTPHeaders</a>.
</p>
<clix:function name="http-request">
<clix:special-definition>
[Function]<br/>
<b>http-request</b> <i>uri</i><div class="arglist-spacer">&rest args</div>
<div class="arglist-spacer">&key
<a href="#arg-protocol">protocol</a>
<a href="#arg-method">method</a>
<a href="#arg-force-ssl">force-ssl</a>
<a href="#arg-certificate">certificate</a>
<a href="#arg-key">key</a>
<a href="#arg-certificate-password">certificate-password</a>
<a href="#arg-verify">verify</a>
<a href="#arg-max-depth">max-depth</a>
<a href="#arg-ca-file">ca-file</a>
<a href="#arg-ca-directory">ca-directory</a>
<a href="#arg-parameters">parameters</a>
<a href="#arg-url-encoder">url-encoder</a>
<a href="#arg-content">content</a>
<a href="#arg-content-type">content-type</a>
<a href="#arg-content-length">content-length</a>
<a href="#arg-form-data">form-data</a>
<a href="#arg-cookie-jar">cookie-jar</a>
<a href="#arg-basic-authorization">basic-authorization</a>
<a href="#arg-user-agent">user-agent</a>
<a href="#arg-accept">accept</a>
<a href="#arg-range">range</a>
<a href="#arg-proxy">proxy</a>
<a href="#arg-proxy-basic-authorization">proxy-basic-authorization</a>
<a href="#arg-real-host">real-host</a>
<a href="#arg-additional-headers">additional-headers</a>
<a href="#arg-redirect">redirect</a>
<a href="#arg-auto-referer">auto-referer</a>
<a href="#arg-keep-alive">keep-alive</a>
<a href="#arg-close">close</a>
<a href="#arg-external-format-out">external-format-out</a>
<a href="#arg-external-format-in">external-format-in</a>
<a href="#arg-force-binary">force-binary</a>
<a href="#arg-want-stream">want-stream</a>
<a href="#arg-stream">stream</a>
<a href="#arg-preserve-uri">preserve-uri</a>
<a href="#arg-connection-timeout">connection-timeout</a>
<a href="#arg-deadline">deadline</a>
</div>
<div class="arglist-spacer">
=> body-or-stream<sup>0</sup>, status-code<sup>1</sup>,
headers<sup>2</sup>, uri<sup>3</sup>, stream<sup>4</sup>,
<a href="#arg-want-stream">must-close<sup>5</sup></a>,
reason-phrase<sup>6</sup>
</div>
</clix:special-definition>
<clix:description>
<p>
Sends an <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html">HTTP</a>
request to a web server and returns its reply.
<clix:arg>uri</clix:arg> is where the request is sent to,
and it is either a string denoting a uniform resource
identifier or a <code>PURI:URI</code> object. The scheme
of <clix:arg>uri</clix:arg> must be `http' or `https'.
The function returns SEVEN values - the body of the
reply<sup>0</sup> (but see below), the status
code<sup>1</sup> as an integer, an alist of the
headers<sup>2</sup> sent by the server where for each
element the car (the name of the header) is a keyword and
the cdr (the value of the header) is a string, the
uri<sup>3</sup> the reply comes from (which might be
different from the <clix:arg>uri</clix:arg> the request
was sent to in case of redirects), the stream<sup>4</sup>
the reply was read from, a generalized boolean<sup>5</sup>
which denotes whether the stream should be closed (and
which you can usually ignore), and finally the reason
phrase<sup>6</sup> from the status line as a string.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-protocol"/>
<clix:arg>protocol</clix:arg> is the HTTP protocol version
which is going to be used in the request line. It must be
one of the keywords <code>:HTTP/1.0</code> or
<code>:HTTP/1.1</code>.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-method"/>
<clix:arg>method</clix:arg> is the method used in the
request line, a keyword (like <code>:GET</code> or
<code>:HEAD</code>) denoting a valid HTTP/1.1 or WebDAV
request method, or <code>:REPORT</code>, as described in
the Versioning Extensions to WebDAV. Additionally, you
can also use the pseudo method <code>:OPTIONS*</code>
which is like <code>:OPTIONS</code> but means that an
"OPTIONS *" request line will be sent, i.e. the
<clix:arg>uri</clix:arg>'s path and query parts will be
ignored.
</p>
<p><a name="arg-force-ssl"/>
If <clix:arg>force-ssl</clix:arg> is true, SSL will be
attached to the socket stream which connects Drakma with
the web server. Usually, you don't have to provide this
argument, as SSL will be attached anyway if the scheme of
<clix:arg>uri</clix:arg> is `https'.
</p>
<p><a name="arg-certificate"/><a
name="arg-certificate-password"/><a name="arg-key"/>
<clix:arg>certificate</clix:arg> is the file name of the PEM
encoded client certificate to present to the server when
making a SSL connection. <clix:arg>key</clix:arg> specifies
the file name of the PEM encoded private key matching the
certificate. <clix:arg>certificate-password</clix:arg>
specifies the pass phrase to use to decrypt the private key.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-verify"/>
<clix:arg>verify</clix:arg> can be specified to force
verification of the certificate that is presented by the
server in an SSL connection. It can be specified either
as <code>NIL</code> if no check should be performed,
<code>:OPTIONAL</code> to verify the server's certificate
if it presented one or <code>:REQUIRED</code> to verify
the server's certificate and fail if an invalid or no
certificate was presented.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-max-depth"/>
<clix:arg>max-depth</clix:arg> can be specified to change
the maximum allowed certificate signing depth that is
accepted. The default is 10.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-ca-file"/>
<a name="arg-ca-directory"/>
<clix:arg>ca-file</clix:arg> and
<clix:arg>ca-directory</clix:arg> can be specified to set
the certificate authority bundle file or directory to use
for certificate validation.
</p>
<p>
The <clix:arg>certificate</clix:arg>,
<clix:arg>key</clix:arg>,
<clix:arg>certificate-password</clix:arg>,
<clix:arg>verify</clix:arg>,
<clix:arg>max-depth</clix:arg>,
<clix:arg>ca-file</clix:arg> and
<clix:arg>ca-directory</clix:arg> parameters are ignored
for non-SSL requests. They are also ignored on LispWorks.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-parameters"/>
<a name="arg-form-data"/>
<clix:arg>parameters</clix:arg> is an alist of name/value
pairs (the car and the cdr each being a string) which
denotes the parameters which are added to the query part
of the URL or (in the case of a POST request) comprise the
body of the request. (But see
<clix:arg>content</clix:arg> below.) The values can also
be <code>NIL</code> in which case only the name (without
an equal sign) is used in the query string. The
name/value pairs are URL-encoded using the FLEXI-STREAMS
external format <clix:arg>external-format-out</clix:arg>
before they are sent to the server unless
<clix:arg>form-data</clix:arg> is true in which case the
POST request body is sent as `multipart/form-data' using
<clix:arg>external-format-out</clix:arg>. The values of
the <clix:arg>parameters</clix:arg> alist can also be
pathnames, open binary input streams, unary functions, or
lists where the first element is of one of the former
types. These values denote files which should be sent as
part of the request body. If files are present in
<clix:arg>parameters</clix:arg>, the content type of the
request is always `multipart/form-data'. If the value is
a list, the part of the list behind the first element is
treated as a plist which can be used to specify a content
type and/or a filename for the file, i.e. such a value
could look like, e.g., <tt>(#p"/tmp/my_file.doc"
:content-type "application/msword" :filename
"upload.doc")</tt>.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-url-encoder"/>
<clix:arg>url-encoder</clix:arg> specifies a custom URL
encoder function which will be used by drakma to
URL-encode parameter names and values. It needs to be a
function of two arguments. The arguments are the string
to encode and the external format to use (as accepted by
FLEXI-STREAMS:STRING-TO-OCTETS). The return value must be
the URL-encoded string. This can be used if specific
encoding rules are required.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-content"/>
<a name="arg-external-format-out"/>
<clix:arg>content</clix:arg>, if not <code>NIL</code>, is
used as the request body - <clix:arg>parameters</clix:arg>
is ignored in this case. <clix:arg>content</clix:arg> can
be a string, a sequence of octets, a pathname, an open
binary input stream, or a function designator. If
<clix:arg>content</clix:arg> is a sequence, it will be
directly sent to the server (using
<clix:arg>external-format-out</clix:arg> in the case of
strings). If <clix:arg>content</clix:arg> is a pathname,
the binary contents of the corresponding file will be sent
to the server. If <clix:arg>content</clix:arg> is a
stream, everything that can be read from the stream until
EOF will be sent to the server. If
<clix:arg>content</clix:arg> is a function designator, the
corresponding function will be called with one argument,
the stream to the server, to which it should send data.
</p>
<p>
Finally, <clix:arg>content</clix:arg> can also be the
keyword <code>:CONTINUATION</code> in which case
<clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref> returns only one value -
a `continuation' function. This function has one required
argument and one optional argument. The first argument
will be interpreted like <clix:arg>content</clix:arg>
above (but it cannot be a keyword), i.e. it will be sent
to the server according to its type. If the second
argument is true, the continuation function can be called
again to send more content, if it is <code>NIL</code> the
continuation function returns what
<clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref> would have returned.
</p>
<p>
If <clix:arg>content</clix:arg> is a sequence, Drakma will
use LENGTH to determine its length and will use the result
for the `Content-Length' header sent to the server. You
can overwrite this with the
<clix:arg>content-length</clix:arg> parameter (a
non-negative integer) which you can also use for the cases
where Drakma can't or won't determine the content length
itself. You can also explicitly provide a
<clix:arg>content-length</clix:arg> argument of
<code>NIL</code> which will imply that no `Content-Length'
header will be sent in any case. If no `Content-Length'
header is sent, Drakma will use chunked encoding to send
the content body. Note that this will not work with older
web servers.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-content-length"/>
Providing a true <clix:arg>content-length</clix:arg>
argument which is not a non-negative integer means that
Drakma /must/ build the request body in RAM and compute
the content length even if it would have otherwise used
chunked encoding, for example in the case of file uploads.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-content-type"/>
<clix:arg>content-type</clix:arg> is the corresponding
`Content-Type' header to be sent and will be ignored
unless <clix:arg>content</clix:arg> is provided as well.
</p>
<p>
Note that a query already contained in
<clix:arg>uri</clix:arg> will always be sent with the
request line anyway in addition to other parameters sent
by Drakma.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-cookie-jar"/>
<clix:arg>cookie-jar</clix:arg> is a cookie jar containing
cookies which will potentially be sent to the server (if
the domain matches, if they haven't expired, etc.) - this
cookie jar will be modified according to the `Set-Cookie'
header(s) sent back by the server.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-basic-authorization"/>
<clix:arg>basic-authorization</clix:arg>, if not
<code>NIL</code>, should be a list of two strings
(username and password) which will be sent to the server
for basic authorization.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-user-agent"/>
<clix:arg>user-agent</clix:arg>, if not <code>NIL</code>,
denotes which `User-Agent' header will be sent with the
request. It can be one of the keywords
<code>:DRAKMA</code>, <code>:FIREFOX</code>,
<code>:EXPLORER</code>, <code>:OPERA</code>, or
<code>:SAFARI</code> which denote the current version of
Drakma or, in the latter four cases, a fixed string
corresponding to a more or less recent (as of August 2006)
version of the corresponding browser. Or it can be a
string which is used directly.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-accept"/>
<clix:arg>accept</clix:arg>, if not <code>NIL</code>,
specifies the contents of the `Accept' header sent.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-range"/>
<clix:arg>range</clix:arg> optionally specifies a subrange
of the resource to be requested. It must be specified as
a list of two integers which indicate the start and
(inclusive) end offset of the requested range, in bytes
(i.e. octets).
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-proxy"/>
<a name="arg-proxy-basic-authorization"/>
If <clix:arg>proxy</clix:arg> is not <code>NIL</code>, it
should be a string denoting a proxy server through which
the request should be sent. Or it can be a list of two
values - a string denoting the proxy server and an integer
denoting the port to use (which will default to 80
otherwise). Defaults to
<clix:arg>*default-http-proxy*</clix:arg>.
<clix:arg>proxy-basic-authorization</clix:arg> is used
like <clix:arg>basic-authorization</clix:arg>, but for the
proxy, and only if <clix:arg>proxy</clix:arg> is true. If
the host portion of the uri is present in the
<clix:ref>*NO-PROXY-DOMAINS*</clix:ref> or the
<clix:arg>NO-PROXY-DOMAINS</clix:arg> list then the proxy
setting will be ignored for this request.
</p>
<p>
If <clix:arg>NO-PROXY-DOMAINS</clix:arg> is set then it
will supersede the <clix:ref>*NO-PROXY-DOMAINS*</clix:ref>
variable. Inserting domains into this list will allow them
to ignore the proxy setting.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-real-host"/>
If <clix:arg>real-host</clix:arg> is not <code>NIL</code>,
request is sent to the denoted host instead of the
<clix:arg>uri</clix:arg> host. When specified,
<clix:arg>real-host</clix:arg> supersedes
<clix:arg>proxy</clix:arg>.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-additional-headers"/>
<clix:arg>additional-headers</clix:arg> is a name/value
alist of additional HTTP headers which should be sent with
the request. Unlike in <clix:arg>parameters</clix:arg>,
the cdrs can not only be strings but also designators for
unary functions (which should in turn return a string) in
which case the function is called each time the header is
written.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-redirect"/>
<a name="arg-auto-referer"/>
If <clix:arg>redirect</clix:arg> is not <code>NIL</code>,
it must be a non-negative integer or T. If
<clix:arg>redirect</clix:arg> is true, Drakma will follow
redirects (return codes 301, 302, 303, or 307) unless
<clix:arg>redirect</clix:arg> is 0. If
<clix:arg>redirect</clix:arg> is an integer, it will be
decreased by 1 with each redirect. Furthermore, if
<clix:arg>auto-referer</clix:arg> is true when following
redirects, Drakma will populate the `Referer' header with
the <clix:arg>uri</clix:arg> that triggered the
redirection, overwriting an existing `Referer' header (in
<clix:arg>additional-headers</clix:arg>) if necessary.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-keep-alive"/>
<a name="arg-close"/>
If <clix:arg>keep-alive</clix:arg> is T, the server will
be asked to keep the connection alive, i.e. not to close
it after the reply has been sent. (Note that this not
necessary if both the client and the server use HTTP 1.1.)
If <clix:arg>close</clix:arg> is T, the server is
explicitly asked to close the connection after the reply
has been sent. <clix:arg>keep-alive</clix:arg> and
<clix:arg>close</clix:arg> are obviously mutually
exclusive.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-external-format-in"/>
<a name="arg-force-binary"/>
If the message body sent by the server has a text content
type, Drakma will try to return it as a Lisp string.
It'll first check if the `Content-Type' header denotes an
encoding to be used, or otherwise it will use the
<clix:arg>external-format-in</clix:arg> argument. The
body is decoded using FLEXI-STREAMS. If FLEXI-STREAMS
doesn't know the external format, the body is returned as
an array of octets. If the body is empty, Drakma will
return <code>NIL</code>.
</p>
<p>
If the message body doesn't have a text content type or if
<clix:arg>force-binary</clix:arg> is true, the body is
always returned as an array of octets.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-want-stream"/>
If <clix:arg>want-stream</clix:arg> is true, the message
body is NOT read and instead the (open) socket stream is
returned as the first return value. If the sixth value of
<clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref> is true, the stream
should be closed (and not be re-used) after the body has
been read. The stream returned is a <a
href="http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/">flexi-stream</a>
with a <a href="http://weitz.de/chunga/"
target="_new">chunked stream</a> as its underlying stream.
If you want to read binary data from this stream, read
from the underlying stream which you can get with
FLEXI-STREAM-STREAM.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-stream"/>
Drakma will usually create a new socket connection for
each HTTP request. However, you can use the
<clix:arg>stream</clix:arg> argument to provide an open
socket stream which should be re-used.
<clix:arg>stream</clix:arg> MUST be a stream returned by a
previous invocation of <clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref>
where the sixth return value wasn't true. Obviously, it
must also be connected to the correct server and at the
right position (i.e. the message body, if any, must have
been read). Drakma will NEVER attach SSL to a stream
provided as the <clix:arg>stream</clix:arg> argument.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-connection-timeout"/>
<clix:arg>connection-timeout</clix:arg> is the time (in
seconds) Drakma will wait until it considers an attempt to
connect to a server as a failure. It is supported only on
some platforms (currently abcl, clisp, LispWorks, mcl,
openmcl and sbcl). READ-TIMEOUT and WRITE-TIMEOUT are the
read and write timeouts (in seconds) for the socket stream
to the server. All three timeout arguments can also be
<code>NIL</code> (meaning no timeout), and they don't
apply if an existing stream is re-used. READ-TIMEOUT
argument is only available for LispWorks, WRITE-TIMEOUT is
only available for LispWorks 5.0 or higher.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-deadline"/>
<clix:arg>deadline</clix:arg>, a time in the future,
specifies the time until which the request should be
finished. The deadline is specified in internal time
units. If the server fails to respond until that time, a
COMMUNICATION-DEADLINE-EXPIRED condition is signalled.
<clix:arg>deadline</clix:arg> is only available on CCL 1.2
and later.
</p>
<p>
<a name="arg-preserve-uri"/>
If <clix:arg>preserve-uri</clix:arg> is not
<code>NIL</code>, the given <clix:arg>uri</clix:arg> will
not be processed. This means that the
<clix:arg>uri</clix:arg> will be sent as-is to the remote
server and it is the responsibility of the client to make
sure that all parameters are encoded properly. Note that
if this parameter is given, and the request is not a POST
with a content-type of `multipart/form-data',
<clix:arg>parameters</clix:arg> will not be used.
</p>
<p>
If <clix:arg>decode-content</clix:arg> is not
<code>NIL</code>, then the content will automatically be
decoded according to any encodings specified in the
Content-Encoding header. The actual decoding is done by
the <clix:ref>decode-stream</clix:ref> generic function,
and you can implement new methods to support additional
encodings. Any encodings in Transfer-Encoding, such as
chunking, are always performed.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function name="parameter-present-p">
<clix:lambda-list>name parameters</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>boolean</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
<p>
If <clix:arg>parameters</clix:arg> is an alist of
parameters as returned by, for example,
READ-TOKENS-AND-PARAMETERS and <clix:arg>name</clix:arg>
is a string naming a parameter, this function returns the
full parameter (name and value) - or <code>NIL</code> if
it's not in <clix:arg>parameters</clix:arg>.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function name="parameter-value">
<clix:lambda-list>name parameters</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>(or string null)</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
<p>
If <clix:arg>parameters</clix:arg> is an alist of
parameters as returned by, for example,
READ-TOKENS-AND-PARAMETERS and <clix:arg>name</clix:arg>
is a string naming a parameter, this function returns the
value of this parameter - or <code>NIL</code> if it's not
in <clix:arg>parameters</clix:arg>.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function name="url-encode">
<clix:lambda-list>string external-format</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>string</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
<p>
Returns a URL-encoded version of the string
<clix:arg>string</clix:arg> using the external format
<clix:arg>external-format</clix:arg>.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function name="decode-stream">
<clix:lambda-list>encoding-type stream</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>stream</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
<p>
Generic function to decode a stream. This is a generic
function which decodes the stream based on the
encoding-type. If a response contains one or more
transfer or content encodings, then decode-stream is
called for each encoding type in the correct order to
properly decode the stream to its original content.
</p>
<p>
<clix:arg>encoding-type</clix:arg> will be a keyword
created by upcasing and interning the encoding type from
the header. <clix:arg>stream</clix:arg> will be the
stream that needs to be
decoded. <clix:ref>decode-stream</clix:ref> returns a new
stream from which you can read the decoded data.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:special-variable name="*body-format-function*">
<clix:description>
<p>
A function which determines whether the content body
returned by the server is text and should be treated as
such or not. The function is called after the request
<clix:ref>headers</clix:ref> have been read and it must
accept two arguments, <code><i>headers</i></code> and
<code><i>external-format-in</i></code>, where
<code><i>headers</i></code> is like the third return value
of <clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref> while
<code><i>external-format-in</i></code> is the
<clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref> argument of the same
name. It should return <code>NIL</code> if the body
should be regarded as binary content, or a <a
href="http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/">FLEXI-STREAMS</a>
external format (which will be used to read the body)
otherwise.
</p>
<p>
This function will only be called if the <a
href="#arg-force-binary"><code><i>force-binary</i></code></a>
argument to <clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref> is
<code>NIL</code>.
</p>
<p>
The initial value of this variable is a function which
uses <clix:ref>*TEXT-CONTENT-TYPES*</clix:ref> to
determine whether the body is text and then proceeds as
described in the <clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref>
documentation entry.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:special-variable>
<clix:special-variable name="*default-http-proxy*">
<clix:description>
<p>
HTTP proxy to be used as default for the proxy keyword
argument of <clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref>. If not
<code>NIL</code>, it should be a string denoting a proxy
server through which the request should be sent. Or it
can be a list of two values - a string denoting the proxy
server and an integer denoting the port to use (which
will default to 80 otherwise).
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:special-variable>
<clix:special-variable name="*no-proxy-domains*">
<clix:description>
<p>
A list of domains for which a proxy should not be used.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:special-variable>
<clix:special-variable name="*drakma-default-external-format*">
<clix:description>
<p>
The default value for the external format keyword
arguments of <clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref>. The value
of this variable will be interpreted by <a
href="http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/">FLEXI-STREAMS</a>.
The initial value is the keyword <code>:LATIN-1</code>.
(Note that Drakma binds <a
href="http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/#*default-eol-style*"><code>*DEFAULT-EOL-STYLE*</code></a>
to <code>:LF</code>).
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:special-variable>
<clix:special-variable name="*header-stream*">
<clix:description>
<p>
If this variable is not <code>NIL</code>, it should be
bound to a stream to which incoming and outgoing headers
will be written for debugging purposes.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:special-variable>
<clix:special-variable name="*text-content-types*">
<clix:description>
<p>
A list of conses which are used by the default value of
<clix:ref>*BODY-FORMAT-FUNCTION*</clix:ref> to decide
whether a 'Content-Type' header denotes text content. The
car and cdr of each cons should each be a string or
<code>NIL</code>. A content type matches one of these
entries (and thus denotes text) if the type part is <a
href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_stgeq_.htm"><code>STRING-EQUAL</code></a>
to the car or if the car is <code>NIL</code> and if the
subtype part is <a
href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_stgeq_.htm"><code>STRING-EQUAL</code></a>
to the cdr or if the cdr is <code>NIL</code>.
</p>
<p>
The initial value of this variable is the list
<pre>(("text" . nil))</pre> which means that every content
type that starts with "text/" is regarded as text, no
matter what the subtype is.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:special-variable>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name="headers" title="Headers">
<p>
This section assembles a couple of convenience functions which
can be used to access information returned as the third value
(<code><i>headers</i></code>) of
<clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref>.
</p>
<p>
Note that if the server sends <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.2">multiple
headers with the same name</a>, these are comprised into one
entry by <clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref>. The values are
separated by commas.
</p>
<clix:function name="get-content-type">
<clix:lambda-list>headers</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>list</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
<p>
Reads and parses a `Content-Type' header and returns it as
three values - the type, the subtype, and an alist
(possibly empty) of name/value pairs for the optional
parameters. <clix:arg>headers</clix:arg> is supposed to
be an alist of headers as returned by
<clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref>. Returns
<code>NIL</code> if there is no such header amongst
<clix:arg>headers</clix:arg>.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function name="header-value">
<clix:lambda-list>name headers</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>(or string null)</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
<p>
If <clix:arg>headers</clix:arg> is an alist of headers as
returned by <clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref> and
<clix:arg>name</clix:arg> is a keyword naming a header,
this function returns the corresponding value of this
header (or <code>NIL</code> if it's not in
<clix:arg>headers</clix:arg>).
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function name="read-tokens-and-parameters">
<clix:lambda-list>string &key value-required-p</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>list</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
<p>
Reads a comma-separated list of tokens from the string
<clix:arg>string</clix:arg>. Each token can be followed
by an optional, semicolon-separated list of
attribute/value pairs where the attributes are tokens
followed by a #\= character and a token or a quoted
string. Returned is a list where each element is either a
string (for a simple token) or a cons of a string (the
token) and an alist (the attribute/value pairs). If
<clix:arg>value-required-p</clix:arg> is <code>NIL</code>,
the value part (including the #\= character) of each
attribute/value pair is optional.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function name="split-tokens">
<clix:lambda-list>string</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>list</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
<p>
Splits the string <clix:arg>string</clix:arg> into a list
of substrings separated by commas and optional whitespace.
Empty substrings are ignored.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name="cookies" title="Cookies">
<p>
<clix:ref>HTTP-REQUEST</clix:ref> can deal with <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie">HTTP
cookies</a> if it gets a <a href="#cookie-jar">cookie jar</a>,
a collection of <clix:ref>COOKIE</clix:ref> objects, as its <a
href="#arg-cookie-jar">cookie-jar</a> argument. Cookies sent
by the web server will be added to the cookie jar (or updated)
if appropriate and cookies already in the cookie jar will be
sent to the server together with the request.
</p>
<p>
Drakma will never remove cookies from a cookie jar
automatically. You have to do it manually using
<clix:ref>DELETE-OLD-COOKIES</clix:ref>.
</p>
<clix:class name="cookie">
<clix:description>
<p>
Instances of this class represent <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie">HTTP
cookies</a>. If you need to create your own cookies, you
should use <a
href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_mk_ins.htm"><code>MAKE-INSTANCE</code></a>
with the initargs <code>:NAME</code>, <code>:DOMAIN</code>,
<code>:VALUE</code>, <code>:PATH</code>,
<code>:EXPIRES</code>, <code>:SECUREP</code>, and
<code>:HTTP-ONLY-P</code> all of which are optional except
for the first two. The meaning of these initargs and <a
href="#cookie-name">the corresponding accessors</a> should
be pretty clear if one looks at the <a
href="http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html">original
cookie specification</a> (and at <a
href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533046.aspx">this
page</a> for the <code>HttpOnly</code> extension).
</p>
<pre><span class="repl-output">? </span><span class="repl-input">(make-instance 'drakma:cookie
:name "Foo"
:value "Bar"
:expires (+ (get-universal-time) 3600)
:domain ".weitz.de")</span>
<span class="repl-output">#<COOKIE Foo=Bar; expires=Sun, 09-12-2012 20:37:42 GMT; path=/; domain=.weitz.de></span>
</pre>
</clix:description>
</clix:class>
<clix:function name="parse-cookie-date">
<clix:lambda-list>string</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>universal-time</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
<p>
Parses a cookie expiry date and returns it as a Lisp <a
href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/25_adb.htm">universal
time</a>. Currently understands the following formats:
</p>
<pre>"Wed, 06-Feb-2008 21:01:38 GMT"
"Wed, 06-Feb-08 21:01:38 GMT"
"Tue Feb 13 08:00:00 2007 GMT"
"Wednesday, 07-February-2027 08:55:23 GMT"
"Wed, 07-02-2017 10:34:45 GMT"</pre>
<p>
Instead of "GMT" time zone abbreviations like "CEST" and UTC
offsets like "GMT-01:30" are also allowed.
</p>
<p>
While this function has "cookie" in its name, it might
come in handy in other situations as well and it is thus
exported as a convenience function.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:function name="cookie=">
<clix:lambda-list>cookie1 cookie2</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>boolean</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
Returns a true value if the cookies
<clix:arg>cookie1</clix:arg> and
<clix:arg>cookie2</clix:arg> are equal. Two cookies are
considered to be equal if name and path are equal.
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:accessors generic='true'>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='cookie-name'>
<clix:lambda-list>cookie</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>string</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='cookie-value'>
<clix:lambda-list>cookie</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>(or string null)</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='cookie-domain'>
<clix:lambda-list>cookie</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>string</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='cookie-path'>
<clix:lambda-list>cookie</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>(or string null)</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='cookie-expires'>
<clix:lambda-list>cookie</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>(or integer null)</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='cookie-http-only-p'>
<clix:lambda-list>cookie</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>boolean</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='cookie-securep'>
<clix:lambda-list>cookie</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>boolean</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
</clix:accessors>
<clix:class name="cookie-jar">
<clix:description>
<p>
An object of this class encapsulates a collection (a list,
actually) of <code>COOKIE</code> objects. You create a new
cookie jar with <code>(MAKE-INSTANCE 'COOKIE-JAR)</code>
where you can optionally provide a list of
<clix:ref>COOKIE</clix:ref> objects with the
<code>:COOKIES</code> initarg. The cookies in a cookie jar
are accessed with <clix:ref>COOKIE-JAR-COOKIES</clix:ref>.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:class>
<clix:accessors generic='true'>
<clix:listed-accessor generic='true' name='cookie-jar-cookies'>
<clix:lambda-list>cookie-jar</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>list</clix:returns>
</clix:listed-accessor>
</clix:accessors>
<clix:function name="delete-old-cookies">
<clix:lambda-list>cookie-jar</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>cookie-jar</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
<p>
Removes all cookies from <clix:arg>cookie-jar</clix:arg>
which have either expired or which don't have an expiry
date.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:special-variable name="*allow-dotless-cookie-domains-p*">
<clix:description>
<p>
When this variable is not <code>NIL</code>, cookie domains
containing no dots are considered valid. The default is
<code>NIL</code>, meaning to disallow such domains except
for "localhost".
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:special-variable>
<clix:special-variable name="*ignore-unparseable-cookie-dates-p*">
<clix:description>
<p>
Whether Drakma is allowed to treat `Expires' dates in
cookie headers as non-existent if it can't parse them. If
the value of this variable is <code>NIL</code> (which is
the default), an error will be signalled instead.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:special-variable>
<clix:special-variable name="*remove-duplicate-cookies-p*">
<clix:description>
<p>
Determines how duplicate cookies in the response are
handled, defaults to <code>T</code>. Cookies are
considered duplicate using <a
href="#cookie="><code>COOKIE=</code></a>.
</p>
<p>
Valid values are:
<ul>
<li><code>NIL</code> - duplicates will not be
removed,</li>
<li><code>T</code> or <code>:KEEP-LAST</code> - for
duplicates, only the last cookie value will be kept,
based on the order of the response header,</li>
<li><code>:KEEP-FIRST</code> - for duplicates, only the
first cookie value will be kept, based on the order of
the response header.</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
Misbehaving servers may send duplicate cookies back in the
same <code>Set-Cookie</code> header:
</p>
<pre>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: My-hand-rolled-server
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:12:30 GMT
Connection: Close
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 82
Set-Cookie: a=1; Path=/; Secure, a=2; Path=/; Secure
</pre>
<p>
In this case Drakma has to choose whether cookie "a" has
the value "1" or "2". By default, Drakma will choose the
last value specified, in this case "2".
</p>
<p>
By default, Drakma conforms to <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2109/rfc2109">RFC2109
HTTP State Management Mechanism</a>, section 4.3.3 Cookie
Management:
<blockquote>
<em>
If a user agent receives a Set-Cookie response header
whose NAME is the same as a pre-existing cookie, and
whose Domain and Path attribute values exactly
(string) match those of a pre-existing cookie, the new
cookie supersedes the old.
</em>
</blockquote>
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:special-variable>
</clix:subchapter>
<clix:subchapter name="conditions" title="Conditions">
<p>
This section lists all the condition types that are defined by
Drakma.
</p>
<clix:condition name="cookie-date-parse-error">
<clix:description>
<p>
Signalled if Drakma tries to parse the date of an incoming
cookie header and can't interpret it.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:condition>
<clix:condition name="cookie-error">
<clix:description>
<p>
Signalled if someone tries to create a COOKIE object
that's not valid.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:condition>
<clix:function name="cookie-error-cookie" generic="true">
<clix:lambda-list>cookie-error</clix:lambda-list>
<clix:returns>(or cookie null)</clix:returns>
<clix:description>
<p>
The <code>COOKIE</code> object that caused this error.
Can be <code>NIL</code> in case such an object couldn't be
initialized.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:function>
<clix:condition name="parameter-error">
<clix:description>
<p>
Signalled if a function was called with inconsistent or
illegal parameters.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:condition>
<clix:condition name="syntax-error">
<clix:description>
<p>
Signalled if Drakma encounters wrong or unknown syntax
when reading the reply from the server.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:condition>
<clix:condition name="drakma-condition">
<clix:description>
<p>
Superclass for all conditions related to Drakma.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:condition>
<clix:condition name="drakma-error">
<clix:description>
<p>
Superclass for all errors related to Drakma.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:condition>
<clix:condition name="drakma-warning">
<clix:description>
<p>
Superclass for all warnings related to Drakma.
</p>
</clix:description>
</clix:condition>
</clix:subchapter>
</clix:chapter>
<clix:chapter name="index" title="Symbol index">
<clix:index/>
</clix:chapter>
</clix:documentation>
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