Lua HTTP client (1 Viewer)

[Anonymous]

How are people doing HTTP requests in Lua? Do you use a Lua rock? Implement it in C? What's your approach/advice?

 

[stetre]

The de facto standard TCP/IP library for Lua is LuaSocket. It should also be available as a 'rock' (methink... not sure because I don't use LuaRocks).

 

[Anonymous]

The de facto standard TCP/IP library for Lua is LuaSocket. It should also be available as a 'rock' (methink... not sure because I don't use LuaRocks).

What about the HTTP protocol? Do you implement it yourself?

 

[stetre]

What about the HTTP protocol? Do you implement it yourself?

See the doc in the repo, at luasocket/doc/http.html (unfortunately the online version no longer exists).