Megatest

	 (hostname        (get-host-name))
	 (ipaddrstr       (let ((ipstr (if (string=? "-" hostn)
					   ;; (string-intersperse (map number->string (u8vector->list (hostname->ip hostname))) ".")
					   (server:get-best-guess-address hostname)
					   #f)))
			    (if ipstr ipstr hostn))) ;; hostname))) 
	 (start-port      (portlogger:open-run-close portlogger:find-port))
	 (link-tree-path  (common:get-linktree))) ;; (configf:lookup *configdat* "setup" "linktree")))
    (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "portlogger recommended port: " start-port)
    (root-path     (if link-tree-path 
		       link-tree-path
		       (current-directory))) ;; WARNING: SECURITY HOLE. FIX ASAP!
    (handle-directory spiffy-directory-listing)
    (handle-exception (lambda (exn chain)
			(signal (make-composite-condition

						  headers: '((content-type text/plain))))
				  (else (continue))))))))
    (http-transport:try-start-server ipaddrstr start-port)))

;; This is recursively run by http-transport:run until sucessful
;;
(define (http-transport:try-start-server ipaddrstr portnum)
  (let ((config-hostname (configf:lookup *configdat* "server" "hostname"))
	(config-use-proxy (equal? (configf:lookup *configdat* "client" "use-http_proxy") "yes")))
    (if (not config-use-proxy)
	(determine-proxy (constantly #f)))
    (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "http-transport:try-start-server time=" (seconds->time-string (current-seconds)) " ipaddrsstr=" ipaddrstr " portnum=" portnum " config-hostname=" config-hostname)
    (handle-exceptions
	exn
	(begin
	  (print-error-message exn)
	  (if (< portnum 64000)
	      (begin 
		(debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "WARNING: attempt to start server failed. Trying again ...")
		(debug:print 0 *default-log-port* " message: " ((condition-property-accessor 'exn 'message) exn))
		(debug:print 5 *default-log-port* "exn=" (condition->list exn))
		(portlogger:open-run-close portlogger:set-failed portnum)
		(debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "WARNING: failed to start on portnum: " portnum ", trying next port")
		(thread-sleep! 0.1)
		
		;; get_next_port goes here
		(http-transport:try-start-server ipaddrstr
						 (portlogger:open-run-close portlogger:find-port)))
	      (begin
		(print "ERROR: Tried and tried but could not start the server"))))
      ;; any error in following steps will result in a retry
      (set! *server-info* (list ipaddrstr portnum))
      (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "INFO: Trying to start server on " ipaddrstr ":" portnum)
      ;; This starts the spiffy server
      ;; NEED WAY TO SET IP TO #f TO BIND ALL
      ;; (start-server bind-address: ipaddrstr port: portnum)
      (if config-hostname ;; this is a hint to bind directly
	  (start-server port: portnum bind-address: (if (equal? config-hostname "-")
							ipaddrstr
							config-hostname))
	  (start-server port: portnum))
      (portlogger:open-run-close portlogger:set-port portnum "released")
      (debug:print 1 *default-log-port* "INFO: server has been stopped"))))

;;======================================================================
;; S E R V E R   U T I L I T I E S 
;;======================================================================

;;======================================================================
;; C L I E N T S

       ;; send the data and get the response
       ;; extract the needed info from the http data and 
       ;; process and return it.
       (let* ((send-recieve (lambda ()
			      (mutex-lock! *http-mutex*)
			      ;; (condition-case (with-input-from-request "http://localhost"; #f read-lines)
			      ;;					       ((exn http client-error) e (print e)))
			      (set! res (vector                ;;; DON'T FORGET - THIS IS THE CLIENT SIDE! NOTE: consider moving this to client.scm since we are only supporting http transport at this time.
					 success
					 (db:string->obj 
					  (handle-exceptions
					      exn
					      (let ((call-chain (get-call-chain))
						    (msg        ((condition-property-accessor 'exn 'message) exn)))
						(set! success #f)
						(debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "WARNING: failure in with-input-from-request to " fullurl ".")
						(debug:print 0 *default-log-port* " message: " msg)
						(debug:print 0 *default-log-port* " cmd: " cmd " params: " params)
						(if runremote
						    (remote-conndat-set! runremote #f))
						;; Killing associated server to allow clean retry.")
						;; (tasks:kill-server-run-id run-id)  ;; better to kill the server in the logic that called this routine?
						(mutex-unlock! *http-mutex*)
					     ;;; (signal (make-composite-condition
					     ;;;          (make-property-condition 'commfail 'message "failed to connect to server")))
					     ;;; "communications failed"
						(db:obj->string #f))
					    (with-input-from-request ;; was dat
					     fullurl 
					     (list (cons 'key "thekey")
						   (cons 'cmd cmd)
						   (cons 'params sparams))
					     read-string))
					  transport: 'http)
                                         0)) ;; added this speculatively
			      ;; Shouldn't this be a call to the managed call-all-connections stuff above?
			      (close-all-connections!)
			      (mutex-unlock! *http-mutex*)
			      ))
	      (time-out     (lambda ()
			      (thread-sleep! 45)
			      #f))
	      (th1 (make-thread send-recieve "with-input-from-request"))
	      (th2 (make-thread time-out     "time out")))
	 (thread-start! th1)
	 (thread-start! th2)
	 (thread-join! th1)
	 (thread-terminate! th2)
	 (debug:print-info 11 *default-log-port* "got res=" res)
	 (if (vector? res)
	     (if (vector-ref res 0) ;; this is the first flag or the second flag?
		 res ;; this is the *inner* vector? seriously? why?
                 (if (debug:debug-mode 11)
                     (let ((call-chain (get-call-chain))) ;; note: this code also called in nmsg-transport - consider consolidating it


                       (print-call-chain (current-error-port))
                       (debug:print-error 11 *default-log-port* "error above occured at server, res=" res " message: " ((condition-property-accessor 'exn 'message) exn))
                       (debug:print 11 *default-log-port* " server call chain:")
                       (pp (vector-ref res 1) (current-error-port))
                       (signal (vector-ref res 0)))
                     res))
	     (signal (make-composite-condition
		      (make-property-condition 
		       'timeout
		       'message "nmsg-transport:client-api-send-receive-raw timed out talking to server")))))))

;; careful closing of connections stored in *runremote*
;;
(define (http-transport:close-connections #!key (area-dat #f))
  (let* ((runremote  (or area-dat *runremote*))
	 (server-dat (if runremote
                         (remote-conndat runremote)
                         #f))) ;; (hash-table-ref/default *runremote* run-id #f)))
    (if (vector? server-dat)
	(let ((api-dat (http-transport:server-dat-get-api-uri server-dat)))
	  (handle-exceptions
	    exn
	    (begin
	      (print-call-chain *default-log-port*)
	      (debug:print-error 0 *default-log-port* " closing connection failed with error: " ((condition-property-accessor 'exn 'message) exn)))
	    (close-connection! api-dat)
	    #t))
	#f)))


(define (make-http-transport:server-dat)(make-vector 6))
(define (http-transport:server-dat-get-iface         vec)    (vector-ref  vec 0))
(define (http-transport:server-dat-get-port          vec)    (vector-ref  vec 1))
(define (http-transport:server-dat-get-api-uri       vec)    (vector-ref  vec 2))

	       (server-state 'available)
	       (bad-sync-count 0)
	       (start-time     (current-milliseconds)))
      ;; Use this opportunity to sync the tmp db to megatest.db
      (if (not server-going) ;; *dbstruct-db* 
	  (begin
	    (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "SERVER: dbprep")
	    (set! *dbstruct-db*  (db:setup #t)) ;;  run-id))
	    (set! server-going #t)
	    (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "SERVER: running, megatest version: " (common:get-full-version)) ;; NOTE: the server is NOT yet marked as running in the log. We do that in the keep-running routine.
	    (thread-start! *watchdog*)))
      
      ;; when things go wrong we don't want to be doing the various queries too often
      ;; so we strive to run this stuff only every four seconds or so.
      (let* ((sync-time (- (current-milliseconds) start-time))

      (set! last-access *db-last-access*)
      (mutex-unlock! *heartbeat-mutex*)
      
      (if (common:low-noise-print 120 (conc "server running on " iface ":" port))
	  (begin
	    (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "SERVER STARTED: " iface ":" port " AT " (current-seconds))
	    (flush-output *default-log-port*)))
      (if (common:low-noise-print 60 "dbstats")
	  (begin
	    (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "Server stats:")
	    (db:print-current-query-stats)))
      (let* ((hrs-since-start  (/ (- (current-seconds) server-start-time) 3600))
	     (adjusted-timeout (if (> hrs-since-start 1)
				   (- server-timeout (inexact->exact (round (* hrs-since-start 60))))  ;; subtract 60 seconds per hour
				   server-timeout)))
	(if (common:low-noise-print 120 "server timeout")
	    (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "Adjusted server timeout: " adjusted-timeout))
	(cond
         ((and *server-run*
	       (> (+ last-access server-timeout)
		  (current-seconds))
	       (< (- (current-seconds) server-start-time) 3600)) ;; do not update log or touch log if we've been running for more than one hour.
          (if (common:low-noise-print 120 "server continuing")
              (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "Server continuing, seconds since last db access: " (- (current-seconds) last-access))
	      (let ((curr-time (current-seconds)))
		(handle-exceptions
		    exn
		    (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "ERROR: Failed to change timestamp on log file " server-log-file ". Are you out of space on that disk?")
		  (if (not *server-overloaded*)
		      (change-file-times server-log-file curr-time curr-time)))))
          (loop 0 server-state bad-sync-count (current-milliseconds)))
         (else
          (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "Server timed out. seconds since last db access: " (- (current-seconds) last-access))
          (http-transport:server-shutdown port)))))))

(define (http-transport:server-shutdown port)
  (begin
    ;;(BB> "http-transport:server-shutdown called")
    (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "Starting to shutdown the server. pid="(current-process-id))
    ;;
    ;; start_shutdown
    ;;

    (set! *time-to-exit* #t) ;; tell on-exit to be fast as we've already cleaned up
    (portlogger:open-run-close portlogger:set-port port "released")
    (thread-sleep! 1)

    ;; (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "Max cached queries was    " *max-cache-size*)
    ;; (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "Number of cached writes   " *number-of-writes*)
    ;; (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "Average cached write time "

    (exit)))

;; all routes though here end in exit ...
;;
;; start_server? 
;;
(define (http-transport:launch)
  ;; lets not even bother to start if there are already three or more server files ready to go
  (let* ((num-alive   (server:get-num-alive (server:get-list *toppath*))))
    (if (> num-alive 3)
	(begin


	  (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "ERROR: Aborting server start because there are already " num-alive " possible servers either running or starting up")

	  (exit))))
  (let* ((th2 (make-thread (lambda ()
			     (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "Server run thread started")
			     (http-transport:run 
			      (if (args:get-arg "-server")
				  (args:get-arg "-server")
				  "-")
			      )) "Server run"))

	  "</body>"
	  )))

(define (http-transport:stats-table)
  (mutex-lock! *heartbeat-mutex*)
  (let ((res 
	 (conc "<table>"
	       ;; "<tr><td>Max cached queries</td>        <td>" *max-cache-size* "</td></tr>"
	       "<tr><td>Number of cached writes</td>   <td>" *number-of-writes* "</td></tr>"
	       "<tr><td>Average cached write time</td> <td>" (if (eq? *number-of-writes* 0)
								 "n/a (no writes)"
								 (/ *writes-total-delay*
								    *number-of-writes*))
	       " ms</td></tr>"
	       "<tr><td>Number non-cached queries</td> <td>"  *number-non-write-queries* "</td></tr>"
	       ;; "<tr><td>Average non-cached time</td>   <td>" (if (eq? *number-non-write-queries* 0)
	       ;; 							 "n/a (no queries)"
	       ;; 							 (/ *total-non-write-delay* 
	       ;; 							    *number-non-write-queries*))
	       " ms</td></tr>"
	       "<tr><td>Last access</td><td>"              (seconds->time-string *db-last-access*) "</td></tr>"
	       "</table>")))
    (mutex-unlock! *heartbeat-mutex*)
    res))

(define (http-transport:runs linkpath)