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1This directory contains the implementation of the protocols FTP, HTTP 1This directory contains the implementation of the protocols FTP, HTTP
2and SMTP. The files provided are: 2and SMTP, the URL parsing and composition module and the Concat and Code
3auxiliary modules. The files provided are:
3 4
4 http.lua -- HTTP protocol implementation 5 http.lua -- HTTP protocol implementation
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16The module ftp.lua provides functions to download and upload files from 17The module ftp.lua provides functions to download and upload files from
17and to FTP servers. The implementation conforms to RFC 959. 18and to FTP servers. The implementation conforms to RFC 959.
18 19
19 base64.lua -- base64 encoding implementation 20 url.lua -- URL parsing and composition
20 21
21The base64.lua module provides base64 encoding and decoding. The module 22The module url.lua provides routines to split a URL into its components
22is used for the HTTP Basic Authentication Scheme, and conforms to RFC 23and to compose a base URL and relative URL into an absolute URL.
231521.
24 24
25 buffer.lua -- fast concatenation library 25 code.lua -- some coding conversion routines
26 26
27The module buffer.lua implements, completely in Lua, a set of functions 27The code.lua module provides base64, hexa and escaped encoding and
28decoding. The module is used for the HTTP Basic Authentication Scheme,
29and URL protection, conforming to RFC 1521.
30
31 concat.lua -- fast concatenation library
32
33The module concat.lua implements, completely in Lua, a set of functions
28that greatly improves the performance of repeated concatenations of Lua 34that greatly improves the performance of repeated concatenations of Lua
29strings. The module was created by Roberto Ierusalimschy. 35strings. The algorithm was inventd by Roberto Ierusalimschy.
30 36
31These modules are part of the LuaSocket library and are supported. 37These modules are part of the LuaSocket library and are supported.
32Please send any comments to diego@tecgraf.puc-rio.br. 38Please send any comments to diego@tecgraf.puc-rio.br.