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7<meta name="keywords" content="Lua, LuaSocket, Network, Library, Support, Internet">
8<title>LuaSocket: Network support for the Lua language </title>
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19<table summary="LuaSocket logo">
20<tr><td align=center><a href="http://www.lua.org">
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23<tr><td align=center valign=top>Network support for the Lua language
24</td></tr>
25</table>
26<p class=bar>
27<a href="index.html">home</a> &middot;
28<a href="index.html#download">download</a> &middot;
29<a href="installation.html">installation</a> &middot;
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31<a href="reference.html">reference</a>
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38
39<h2 id=whatis>What is LuaSocket?</h2>
40
41<p>
42LuaSocket is a <a href="http://www.lua.org">Lua</a> extension library
43that is composed by two parts: a C core that provides support for the TCP
44and UDP transport layers, and a set of Lua modules that add support for
45functionality commonly needed by applications that deal with the Internet.
46</p>
47
48<p>
49The core support has been implemented so that it is both efficient and
50simple to use. It is available to any Lua application once it has been
51properly initialized by the interpreter in use. The code has been tested
52and runs well on several Windows and UNIX platforms. </p>
53
54<p>
55Among the support modules, the most commonly used implement the
56<a href=smtp.html>SMTP</a>
57(sending e-mails),
58<a href=http.html>HTTP</a>
59(WWW access) and
60<a href=ftp.html>FTP</a>
61(uploading and downloading files) client
62protocols. These provide a very natural and generic interface to the
63functionality defined by each protocol.
64In addition, you will find that the
65<a href=mime.html>MIME</a> (common encodings),
66<a href=url.html>URL</a>
67(anything you could possible want to do with one) and
68<a href=ltn12.html>LTN12</a>
69(filters, sinks, sources and pumps) modules can be very handy.
70</p>
71
72<p>
73The library is available under the same
74<a href="http://www.lua.org/copyright.html">
75terms and conditions</a> as the Lua language, the MIT license. The idea is
76that if you can use Lua in a project, you should also be able to use
77LuaSocket.
78</p>
79
80<p>
81Copyright &copy; 1999-2013 Diego Nehab. All rights reserved. <br>
82Author: <A href="http://www.impa.br/~diego">Diego Nehab</a>
83</p>
84
85<!-- download +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -->
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87<h2 id=download>Download</h2>
88
89<p>
90LuaSocket version 3.0-rc1 is now available for download!
91It is compatible with Lua&nbsp;5.1 and 5.2, and has
92been tested on Windows&nbsp;XP, Linux, and Mac OS X. Chances
93are it works well on most UNIX distributions and Windows flavors.
94</p>
95
96<p>
97The current version of the library can be found at
98the <a href="https://github.com/diegonehab/luasocket">LuaSocket
99project page</a> on GitHub. Besides the full C and Lua source code
100for the library, the distribution contains several examples,
101this user's manual and basic test procedures.
102</p>
103
104<p> Take a look at the <a
105href=installation.html>installation</a> section of the
106manual to find out how to properly install the library.
107</p>
108
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110
111<h2 id=thanks>Special thanks</h2>
112
113<p>
114This marks the first release of LuaSocket that
115wholeheartedly embraces the open-source development
116philosophy. After a long hiatus, Matthew Wild finally
117convinced me it was time for a release including IPv6 and
118Lua 5.2 support. It was more work than we anticipated.
119Special thanks to Sam Roberts, Florian Zeitz, and Paul
120Aurich, Liam Devine, Alexey Melnichuk, and everybody else
121that has helped bring this library back to life.
122</p>
123
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125
126<h2 id=new>What's New</h2>
127
128<p>
129Main changes for LuaSocket&nbsp;3.0-rc1 are IPv6 support
130and Lua&nbsp;5.2 compatibility.
131</p>
132
133<ul>
134<li> Added: Compatible with Lua&nbsp;5.2
135<ul>
136<li> Note that unless you define <tt>LUA_COMPAT_MODULE</tt>,
137package tables will <em>not</em> be exported as globals!
138</ul>
139<li> Added: IPv6 support;
140<ul>
141<li> <tt>Socket.connect</tt> and <tt>socket.bind</tt> support IPv6 addresses;
142<li> <tt>Getpeername</tt> and <tt>getsockname</tt> support
143IPv6 addresses, and return the socket family as a third value;
144<li> URL module updated to support IPv6 host names;
145<li> New <tt>socket.tcp6</tt> and <tt>socket.udp6</tt> functions;
146<li> New <tt>socket.dns.getaddrinfo</tt> and
147 <tt>socket.dns.getnameinfo</tt> functions;
148</ul>
149<li> Added: <tt>getoption</tt> method;
150<li> Fixed: <tt>url.unescape</tt> was returning additional values;
151<li> Fixed: <tt>mime.qp</tt>, <tt>mime.unqp</tt>,
152 <tt>mime.b64</tt>, and <tt>mime.unb64</tt> could
153 mistaking their own stack slots for functions arguments;
154<li> Fixed: Receiving zero-length datagram is now possible;
155<li> Improved: Hidden all internal library symbols;
156<li> Improved: Better error messages;
157<li> Improved: Better documentation of socket options.
158<li> Fixed: manual sample of HTTP authentication now uses correct
159 "authorization" header (Alexandre Ittner);
160<li> Fixed: failure on bind() was destroying the socket (Sam Roberts);
161<li> Fixed: receive() returns immediatelly if prefix can satisfy
162 bytes requested (M Joonas Pihlaja);
163<li> Fixed: multicast didn't work on Windows, or anywhere
164 else for that matter (Herbert Leuwer, Adrian Sietsma);
165<li> Fixed: select() now reports an error when called with more
166 sockets than FD_SETSIZE (Lorenzo Leonini);
167<li> Fixed: manual links to home.html changed to index.html
168(Robert Hahn);
169<li> Fixed: mime.unb64() would return an empty string on results that started
170 with a null character (Robert Raschke);
171<li> Fixed: HTTP now automatically redirects on 303 and 307 (Jonathan Gray);
172<li> Fixed: calling sleep() with negative numbers could
173 block forever, wasting CPU. Now it returns immediately (MPB);
174<li> Improved: FTP commands are now sent in upper case to
175 help buggy servers (Anders Eurenius);
176<li> Improved: known headers now sent in canonic
177 capitalization to help buggy servers (Joseph Stewart);
178<li> Improved: Clarified tcp:receive() in the manual (MPB);
179<li> Improved: Decent makefiles (LHF).
180<li> Fixed: RFC links in documentation now point to IETF (Cosmin Apreutesei).
181</ul>
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184
185<h2 id=old>Old Versions</h2>
186
187<p>
188All previous versions of the LuaSocket library can be downloaded <a
189href="http://www.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/old">
190here</a>. Although these versions are no longer supported, they are
191still available for those that have compatibility issues.
192</p>
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207Last modified by Diego Nehab on <br>
208Tue Jun 11 18:50:23 HKT 2013
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