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Not OP but for me, I wanted to write http server applications and I was put off by having to specify the http response status messages and timestamps. I'm wonde

by 147 6y ago

Not OP but for me, I wanted to write http server applications and I was put off by having to specify the http response status messages and timestamps. I'm wondering why something slightly higher level isn't built into the standard lib.

Bogdanp 6y ago
You don’t have to specify those things yourself unless you want to manually construct a response struct. There are helpers like response/xexpr and response/output that construct responses for you. This article might help: https://defn.io/2020/02/12/racket-web-server-guide/ https://defn.io/2020/02/12/racket-web-server-guide/
- 147 6y ago
  But if I wanted to say return a 404 I don't want to have to specify "Not Found" along with it every time.
  - Bogdanp 6y ago
    As of a couple releases ago, the message gets set according to the status code so this code would behave as expected: (response/xexpr #:code 404 '(h1 "Not Found"))
samth 6y ago
These days, response status messages are automatically inferred: https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/http.html?q=response%2Fxexpr#%28def._%28%28lib._web-server%2Fhttp%2Fresponse-structs..rkt%29._response%2Ffull%29%29 https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/http.html?q=response...
- 147 6y ago
  Thanks! I’m gonna give racket another spin now.