http headers and stream-element-type

From: Sam Steingold (sds_at_gnu.org)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:05:25 -0500

the HTTP response to a "GET foo" request consists of headers, blank
line, and data.
it is preferable to parse headers as text (STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE =
CHARACTER) but sometimes one wants to process data as binary
(STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE = (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8)).
ACL permits interchangeable READ-LINE and READ-SEQUENCE into a byte
vector on the socket stream.
CLISP has (SETF STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE).

How about CMUCL, ABCL, LW, MCL &c?

What do you do if you want to mix binary and character i/o on the same
stream?

Thanks. 

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