[ANN] Swazoo web server 2.0 beta released on Squeak

Dear Squeakers,

I just finished a port of Swazoo to Squeak and a first beta is now
available on SqueakSource (http://www.squeaksource.com/Swazoo).

After installation you can start a simple 'Hello World' demo site.
Follow instructions on http://www.swazoo.org/installation-squeak.html 
and short explanation on http://www.swazoo.org/documentation.html.

To introduce it a bit: Swazoo (Smalltalk Web Application Zoo) is an open
source, vendor agnostic, dialect neutral Smalltalk HTTP server with
resource and web request resolution framework, a fruit of a first Camp
Smalltalk 2000 in San Diego. Its main features are:

     * HTTP 1.1 and virtual site support
     * concept of hierarchical Resources allows pluggable addition of new
       web resources like static page servers, wikis, dynamic web
       frameworks like Seaside and Aida/Web
     * clean web request resolution framework
     * resource for static web serving

I hope that Squeakers will find Swazoo useful and help us achieve its
main goal: to become a web server of choice for all dialects of Smalltalk.

Best regards
Janko Mivšek
maintainer of Swazoo
http://www.swazoo.org

> I just finished a port of Swazoo to Squeak and a first beta is now
> available on SqueakSource (http://www.squeaksource.com/Swazoo).

Cool. Thanks Janko.

One question: How does Swazoo deal with character encoding?

Lukas

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http://www.lukas-renggli.ch

Hi Lukas,

Lukas Renggli wrote:
> One question: How does Swazoo deal with character encoding?

It does not deal at all, it just pass strings to other frameworks, which
should deal with encodings by themselves.

But of course Swazoo provides support to read/set headers in
HTTPRequest/Response regarding codepage, language etc.

Best regards
Janko

Lukas,

Regarding codepage support one question arises: is this duty of Swazoo
or  is it better for a web framework to deal with?

I have a feeling that it will be hard to make a general codepage support
on Swazoo level (http request parsing) because of lack of knowledge
about meaning of request/response data. Web frameworks have that
knowledge while web server alone not enough IMHO. But we can provide
some support on a http response level. Framework can switch on an UTF-8
conversion for instance. But then again, a framework can do that alone
too. What do you think?

Best regards
Janko

Janko Mivšek wrote:
> Lukas Renggli wrote:
>> One question: How does Swazoo deal with character encoding?
>
> It does not deal at all, it just pass strings to other frameworks, which
> should deal with encodings by themselves.
>
> But of course Swazoo provides support to read/set headers in
> HTTPRequest/Response regarding codepage, language etc.


--
Janko Mivšek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si

On 06/06/07, Lukas Renggli <[hidden email]> wrote:

> One question: How does Swazoo deal with character encoding?

A great deal of work has been done on the Hyper HTTP library in this
regard.  Hyper and the HTTP server code in Swazoo have the same roots,
the HTTP server written by Ken Treis.  Hyper has evolved quite a bit
from those roots, though.

The current versions of Hyper are very clear about when they are
dealing with OCTET and CHAR data (per RFC 2616).  Entity data within
an HTTP message is always presumed to be OCTET data so you can apply
whatever encoding you wish.  For the OpenSkills systems we always use
UTF-8 these days.  Hyper can be used with the Swazoo resource handling
code and this is demonstrated in versions of Swazoo published to the
Cincom public Store repository.

Hyper uses Sport and so works in Squeak :-)

HTH,
    Bruce
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Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills
http://www.openskills.org/

Hi,

Do I need to get another version of SPort? I have 2.024 (as the Installation doc says) and I just got stuck in the method HTTPString#decodedHTTPFrom: and got the error message:

        SpEnvironment does not understand #integerFromString:

I guess that this class is from the SPort library or have I missed something?

Cheers,

James

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Dear Squeakers,

I just finished a port of Swazoo to Squeak and a first beta is now
available on SqueakSource (http://www.squeaksource.com/Swazoo).

After installation you can start a simple 'Hello World' demo site.
Follow instructions on http://www.swazoo.org/installation-squeak.html 
and short explanation on http://www.swazoo.org/documentation.html.

To introduce it a bit: Swazoo (Smalltalk Web Application Zoo) is an open
source, vendor agnostic, dialect neutral Smalltalk HTTP server with
resource and web request resolution framework, a fruit of a first Camp
Smalltalk 2000 in San Diego. Its main features are:

     * HTTP 1.1 and virtual site support
     * concept of hierarchical Resources allows pluggable addition of new
       web resources like static page servers, wikis, dynamic web
       frameworks like Seaside and Aida/Web
     * clean web request resolution framework
     * resource for static web serving

I hope that Squeakers will find Swazoo useful and help us achieve its
main goal: to become a web server of choice for all dialects of Smalltalk.

Best regards
Janko Mivšek
maintainer of Swazoo
http://www.swazoo.org



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Hi James,

Yes, SPort is really missing that method (it was not ported correctly),
but how do you got that error? Simply by opening that Hello World web page?

Best regards
Janko

James Hayes wrote:
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AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si

The features appear similar, what technical advantages does Swazoo provide
over Commanche?


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Hi Janko,

>Yes, SPort is really missing that method (it was not ported correctly),
>but how do you got that error? Simply by opening that Hello World web page?

I was trying out a little web app I wrote in Seaside. The problem arised during a post request which included an email address. Could you tell me where should I get the correctly ported version of SPort?

Cheers,

James

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AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si



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Hi James,

James Hayes wrote:
> Hi Janko,
>
>> Yes, SPort is really missing that method (it was not ported correctly),
>> but how do you got that error? Simply by opening that Hello World web page?
> I was trying out a little web app I wrote in Seaside. The problem arised during a post request which included an email address. Could you tell me where should I get the correctly ported version of SPort?

I just published SPort 2.025 on http://www.squeaksource.com/SPort which
includes all missing methods. This was an error also reported on Mantis
at http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6515 and it is now therefore solved.

Thanks for reporting it!
Janko


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AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si

On 08/06/07, Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I just published SPort 2.025 on http://www.squeaksource.com/SPort which
> includes all missing methods. This was an error also reported on Mantis
> at http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6515 and it is now therefore solved.

Further to this, we are in the process of setting up a SourceForge
project that can host recent versions of every port of Sport.  The
project is in the queue to be established.

Also, for those interested in Sport and who will be coming along to
ESUG, there will be a Sport BOF one evening at which we will discuss
the interfaces we would like to see in Sport 2 based on what we have
learned with Sport (1).

All the best,
    Bruce
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