Common Lisp/External libraries/Drakma

Drakma is a fully-featured web client (implemented in Common Lisp) that knows how to handle HTTP/1.1 chunking, persistent connections, re-usable sockets, SSL, continuable uploads, file uploads, cookies, and other things. With Drakma, you can make HTTP requests.

Further Reading edit

http://www.weitz.de/drakma/ Drakma Homepage