chickadee » spiffy » accept-loop

This procedure starts the loop which accepts incoming connections and fires off threads to handle requests on those connections. You can use it if you need more control over the startup process than start-server offers.

The listener object should be an object which is accepted by the accept procedure, which should return two values; an input and an output port which represent an incoming connection from a client. The optional addresses procedure should accept the input port returned by the accept procedure and return two strings; the local and remote addresses of the server and client, respectively.

For example, you can set up an SSL context and drop privileges, and possibly load extra code before starting the accept loop (Spiffy contains the required code to detect SSL ports, and will handle those more-or-less transparently):

(import spiffy openssl)

(server-port 443)
(spiffy-user "www")
(spiffy-group "www")

;; Bind the port as root, before we drop privileges
(define listener (ssl-listen (server-port)))

;; Load the certificate files as root so we can secure their permissions
(ssl-load-certificate-chain! listener "server.pem")
(ssl-load-private-key! listener "server.key")

;; Drop root privileges
(switch-user/group (spiffy-user) (spiffy-group))
  
;; We don't want to load this extra code as root!
(load "extra-code.scm")

;; Done! Start listening for connections.
(accept-loop listener ssl-accept)