[racket] Racket Web Server

The documentation you are reading:

http://web.mit.edu/drracket_v501/share/racket/doc/continue/index.html

is for version 5.0.1, but you are running 5.1.3.

If you look at the documentation for the version you are using:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/index.html

You'll see the example program is different due to changes from 5.0.1 to 5.1.3

Jay

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Jeremy Kun <kun.jeremy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I used the Racket web server a few years ago, and returning to it now I'm
> having trouble getting it set up on my home computer (Win Vista, DrRacket
> version 5.1.3).
>
> So I went to Continue: Web Applications in Racket to do the hello world
> program, which I will later practice deploying on a real web server.
> Unfortunately the hello world program from the above link doesn't work on my
> machine. First, I press Run in Dr. Racket, and the web page pops up with a
> "Could not connect" message, which I eventually found out was because
> "localhost" wasn't bound to 127.0.0.1 on my machine. Go figure. After
> replacing localhost with 127.0.0.1, I get an error with the following stack
> trace:
>
> Servlet (@ /servlets/standalone.rkt) exception:
> start: self-contract violation, expected <can-be-response?>, given: '(html
> (head (title "My Blog")) (body (h1 "Under construction")))
>   contract from you, blaming you
>   contract:
>     (-> request? can-be-response?)
>
> The program itself is copy-pasted from the webpage, and compiles without
> error. Can anyone give me a clue as to what might have gone wrong? I have no
> idea how the contract structure works, so the error message is a bit
> baffling.
> On another note, I tried running the servlet in multiple browsers (hoping
> that something as silly as that wasn't the problem), and I noticed that in
> IE7 the css for the error message is a bit off. If the Racket devs care
> about that sort of thing (I sure don't, but who knows?) then they might want
> to fix that. I've attached a screenshot of the error in IE7 here.
> I appreciate any words of wisdom to help me get this server running, and I'm
> certainly willing to learn something new to fix it.
> Regards,
> Jeremy
>
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