LuaSocket: Network support for the Lua language

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What is LuaSocket?

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-LuaSocket is a Lua extension library -that is composed by two parts: a C core that provides support for the TCP -and UDP transport layers, and a set of Lua modules that add support for -functionality commonly needed by applications that deal with the Internet. -

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-The core support has been implemented so that it is both efficient and -simple to use. It is available to any Lua application once it has been -properly initialized by the interpreter in use. The code has been tested -and runs well on several Windows and UNIX platforms.

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-Among the support modules, the most commonly used implement the -SMTP -(sending e-mails), -HTTP -(WWW access) and -FTP -(uploading and downloading files) client -protocols. These provide a very natural and generic interface to the -functionality defined by each protocol. -In addition, you will find that the -MIME (common encodings), -URL -(anything you could possible want to do with one) and -LTN12 -(filters, sinks, sources and pumps) modules can be very handy. -

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-The library is available under the same - -terms and conditions as the Lua language, the MIT license. The idea is -that if you can use Lua in a project, you should also be able to use -LuaSocket. -

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-Copyright © 1999-2013 Diego Nehab. All rights reserved.
-Author: Diego Nehab -

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Download

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-LuaSocket version 3.0-rc1 is now available for download! -It is compatible with Lua 5.1 and 5.2, and has -been tested on Windows XP, Linux, and Mac OS X. Chances -are it works well on most UNIX distributions and Windows flavors. -

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-The current version of the library can be found at -the LuaSocket -project page on GitHub. Besides the full C and Lua source code -for the library, the distribution contains several examples, -this user's manual and basic test procedures. -

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Take a look at the installation section of the -manual to find out how to properly install the library. -

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Special thanks

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-This marks the first release of LuaSocket that -wholeheartedly embraces the open-source development -philosophy. After a long hiatus, Matthew Wild finally -convinced me it was time for a release including IPv6 and -Lua 5.2 support. It was more work than we anticipated. -Special thanks to Sam Roberts, Florian Zeitz, and Paul -Aurich, Liam Devine, Alexey Melnichuk, and everybody else -that has helped bring this library back to life. -

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What's New

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-Main changes for LuaSocket 3.0-rc1 are IPv6 support -and Lua 5.2 compatibility. -

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Added: Compatible with Lua 5.2

Note that unless you define LUA_COMPAT_MODULE, -package tables will not be exported as globals!

Added: IPv6 support;

Socket.connect and socket.bind support IPv6 addresses;
Getpeername and getsockname support -IPv6 addresses, and return the socket family as a third value;
URL module updated to support IPv6 host names;
New socket.tcp6 and socket.udp6 functions;
New socket.dns.getaddrinfo and - socket.dns.getnameinfo functions;

Added: getoption method;
Fixed: url.unescape was returning additional values;
Fixed: mime.qp, mime.unqp, - mime.b64, and mime.unb64 could - mistaking their own stack slots for functions arguments;
Fixed: Receiving zero-length datagram is now possible;
Improved: Hidden all internal library symbols;
Improved: Better error messages;
Improved: Better documentation of socket options.
Fixed: manual sample of HTTP authentication now uses correct - "authorization" header (Alexandre Ittner);
Fixed: failure on bind() was destroying the socket (Sam Roberts);
Fixed: receive() returns immediatelly if prefix can satisfy - bytes requested (M Joonas Pihlaja);
Fixed: multicast didn't work on Windows, or anywhere - else for that matter (Herbert Leuwer, Adrian Sietsma);
Fixed: select() now reports an error when called with more - sockets than FD_SETSIZE (Lorenzo Leonini);
Fixed: manual links to home.html changed to index.html -(Robert Hahn);
Fixed: mime.unb64() would return an empty string on results that started - with a null character (Robert Raschke);
Fixed: HTTP now automatically redirects on 303 and 307 (Jonathan Gray);
Fixed: calling sleep() with negative numbers could - block forever, wasting CPU. Now it returns immediately (MPB);
Improved: FTP commands are now sent in upper case to - help buggy servers (Anders Eurenius);
Improved: known headers now sent in canonic - capitalization to help buggy servers (Joseph Stewart);
Improved: Clarified tcp:receive() in the manual (MPB);
Improved: Decent makefiles (LHF).
Fixed: RFC links in documentation now point to IETF (Cosmin Apreutesei).

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Old Versions

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-All previous versions of the LuaSocket library can be downloaded -here. Although these versions are no longer supported, they are -still available for those that have compatibility issues. -

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