This package contains a simple networking extension library for Lua 5.1 which is implemented and exported from a C shared library (.so).
It may be installed system-wide and used by your Lua scripts with ease.
Compile and install the library with:
make
make install (as root).
This will install the library into the directory /usr/lib/lua/5.1 along with a helper package into /usr/share/lua51.
Once the library has been installed you can use it from your Lua scripts easily.
Please see the documentation included in docs/ for details.
The package comes complete with several small examples inside the API documentation which you can find beneath the docs/ directory.
More complete sample code is included:
httpd.lua - A simple HTTP server written in Lua using the primitives. This server understands virtual hosts, and will serve using your systems installed MIME types database.
The vhosts directory will contain a sub-directory for each virtual host you wish to serve, for example:
./vhosts/
./vhosts/my-host-name/
./vhosts/my-host-name/htdocs - The web root
./vhosts/my-host-name/logs - Where logfiles are saved
client.lua - A very simple HTTP client written in Lua using the primitives.
This code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Lesser Public License.