gk:

I'm interested in running Haskell code invoked from an Apache web server request. I discovered the mod_haskell project [1] which looks prima facie v. promising. Does anyone have any recent experience of using this (there apparently being no recent activity on this project)?

I wonder if there's any other project or activity in this area I should be aware of?

A couple that I can think of: 1) Is Niklas Broberg's HSP. Niklas has said: | Indeed, we have a working server that does runtime loading of HSP | pages (i.e. Haskell apps) using hs-plugins. We'll be releasing a first | version some time really soon, but if you want a preview just send me | a mail. =) 2) Is lambdabot's @plugs function which evaluates Haskell code via plugins through an irc interface. The code fragments are arbitrary, so there are restrictions on the type of the value, on the in-scope modules, and on the running time of the application. There's a few other small, or unannounced projects of this flavour floating around -- Don

On 14/04/2005, at 8:37 PM, Graham Klyne wrote:

I'm interested in running Haskell code invoked from an Apache web server request. I discovered the mod_haskell project [1] which looks prima facie v. promising. Does anyone have any recent experience of using this (there apparently being no recent activity on this project)?

If you're using GHC, I don't think a mod_haskell is a feasible option right now, since Haskell code can't be compiled to a dynamic library (unless you statically compile in mod_haskell into Apache, which is pretty unusual these days, or you're on Mac OS X which supports dynamic libraries, but then you're treading on pretty new ground). You're probably best off with a standalone CGI program. -- % Andre Pang : trust.in.love.to.save http://www.algorithm.com.au/