Add SSE sink (socket.sse module)feat/sse

Implements SSE by using the replacement body sink. Replaces
the sink with an SSE parser if the response is a text stream.

Example application included

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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Server-Sent Events (SSE) demo client
+-- LuaSocket sample files
+--
+-- Usage: lua sse.lua [<url>] [<event-count>]
+-- Both arguments are positional and optional; with none given, connects to
+-- a public live test feed and stops after 5 events.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+local http = require("socket.http")
+local sse = require("socket.sse")
+
+-- default target: Wikimedia's public, continuously-streaming recent-changes
+-- feed -- a real, live text/event-stream endpoint, handy for trying out
+-- socket.sse without standing up a server of your own
+local DEFAULT_URL = "https://stream.wikimedia.org/v2/stream/recentchange"
+local DEFAULT_LIMIT = 5
+
+-- shortens a long data payload for readable terminal output
+local function preview(text, limit)
+    limit = limit or 100
+    if #text > limit then return string.sub(text, 1, limit) .. "..." end
+    return text
+end
+
+-- builds a message callback that prints each received Message, then stops
+-- the stream once "limit" of them have been printed. This module parses a
+-- single request/response and never reconnects on its own (see
+-- docs/adr/0001-sse-single-shot-no-auto-reconnect.md), so a caller who wants
+-- to stop early just does what we do here: return an error from the
+-- callback, which ends the request the same way any sink error would
+local function makeprinter(limit)
+    local count = 0
+    return function(message)
+        count = count + 1
+        io.write(string.format("[%d] event=%s id=%s\n    data=%s\n",
+            count, message.event, tostring(message.id), preview(message.data)))
+        if count >= limit then
+            return nil, string.format("stopped after %d events", limit)
+        end
+        return 1
+    end
+end
+
+-- main program
+arg = arg or {}
+local url = arg[1] or DEFAULT_URL
+local limit = tonumber(arg[2]) or DEFAULT_LIMIT
+
+io.write("connecting to ", url, " (stopping after ", limit, " events)\n")
+local ok, code = http.request{
+    url = url,
+    headers_callback = sse.responseheaders(makeprinter(limit))
+}
+
+if ok then
+    -- the server closed the connection on its own before we hit our limit
+    io.write("connection closed by server, code=", tostring(code), "\n")
+else
+    -- once the callback above returns an error, http.request reports it the
+    -- same way it reports any failure: (nil, message) -- so "code" here is
+    -- really our own "stopped after N events" message, not a real error
+    io.write(code, "\n")
+end