Hi Nadeem, I'm not sure why curl and the Web browser behave differently. Is it possible to see a network trace?
As for having a different shutdown URL... I'm curious why you want one for starters, because there may be a better way to do what you want. The shutdown URL with serve/servlet works by calling the shutdown function that serve returns. All that does is kill the custodian that the server was started with. So, you could do the same thing by knowing what the server's custodian. Jay On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid <nad...@acm.org> wrote: > A couple of questions regarding quitting web apps, > > 1. I start up a servlet so: > (serve/servlet my-dispatch #:quit? #t ...) > Now, how come if I use a program like curl/wget to access the "/quit" URL, > the server doesn't shut down, but accessing the same URL via a web browser > does? Here's the terminal interaction with curl: > > $ curl http://localhost:8000/quit > <html><head><title>Server Stopped</title><link rel="stylesheet" > href="/error.css" /></head><body><div class="section"><div > class="title">Server Stopped</div><p>Return to > DrRacket.</p></div></body></html> > > ... The server continues running. Now if I visit the same url in a browser, > it stops after displaying the same HTML above. Here's the log file for the > servlet (the two requests look identical): > > 127.0.0.1 - - [23/Jun/2010:15:25:29 -0400] "GET /quit HTTP/1.1" 200 512 > 127.0.0.1 - - [23/Jun/2010:15:25:37 -0400] "GET /quit HTTP/1.1" 200 512 > > > > 2. In general, is there a good way to set up a different URL to stop the > server? E.g. suppose I want to set up a "/shutdown" URL that determines first > if the current user is properly authenticated, and then shuts down the > server. I was playing around putting in a request to "/quit" in the handler > for the /shutdown URL: "(get-pure-port (string->url > "http://localhost:8000/quit";)) ... " but this, like with curl, returns the > "Server Stopped" page but doesn't actually stop the server. How does the > DrRacket "Stop" button stop a running web server nicely? I tried doing > (break-thread (current-thread)) in the handler for /shutdown, but that didn't > quit work either. > > > Thanks in advance, > --- nadeem > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://teammccarthy.org/jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
