hanshuebner / rasselbock

http server written in VAX LISP

rasselbock - A http server written in VAX LISP

rasselbock is a web server written in VAX LISP. I wrote it for fun, to learn how to program in VAX LISP and in particular how to interface with VMS system services and the Record Management Services (RMS).

Prerequisites

• OpenVMS V5.5-2 on VAX
• VAX LISP V3.1
• TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS (UCX) V4.2

Features

• Implements HTTP/1.0 (no persistent connections)
• Request routing based on HTTP method and URI
• Serves binary and text files from the file system

Code tour

rasselbock.lsp

Implements listening to a TCP socket, accepting connections, reading of request line and headers and writing of response headers.

response.lsp

Defines the structure of a response as returned from a handler.

file-response.lsp

Implements reading of files from the VMS file system and writing to the client socket. As VAX LISP does not provide efficient routines to access binary files, such files are read using direct calls to the VMS Record Management System (RMS).

dispatch.lsp

Routing of http requests to handlers. This is where requests to "/" are rerouted to the index.html file.

utils.lsp

Utility functions and macros not specific to Rasselbock.

vms.lsp

Structures, functions and macros to help interacting with VMS system services.

parameters.lsp

Parameters global to Rasselbock (i.e. buffer sizes).

editor-commands.lsp

Customizations to the VAX LISP editor to add features that I have missed.

rasselbock's Issues

VAX LISP

How do you manage to install VAX Lisp - I assume you used simh? (Will it run on VMS 5.4-3)
Thanks