README for lisp-cgi-utils

     Copyright (C) 2003,2004 Alexander Schreiber

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author: Alexander Schreiber <als@thangorodrim.de>

This is lisp-cgi-utils, a toolkit for writing CGI applications in Common Lisp.

It consists of two packages:
 - the package HTTP, implemented in the file http.lisp:
   - the basic CGI interface,
   - can send the HTTP headers,
   - can read CGI environment variables,
   - can parse GET/POST CGI parameters and offer easy access to them
 - the package HTML:
   - basic HTML formatting, with support for the most used tags (not yet
     all, will be completed on demand),
   - specialized support function for working with HTML forms,
   - HTTP cookie support

usage:
  - load the HTTP and HTML packages into your Lisp image simply by
    (load "http.lisp")
    (load "html.lisp")

Very simple examples are included in the examples directory.

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