Re: a few questions re LuaSockets

[Martin Spernau <martin@...>]

> > * I've looked at several minimal/small-footprint webservers in C, and 
> > would like to try to build something similar in Lua. Ideas anybody?
> >    
>
> One problem you might come across is the want to use stat() or similar
> (ie, to get date stamps for files so you can put the last modified
> header in, and respond to if-modified-since requests).  There isn't a
> stat() like thing in ANSI C AFAIK, so you may have do some work in the C
> domain anyway, perhaps quite a lot to get acceptable performance.  You
> may also run into the problem that you can't select() on normal Lua file 
> handles (I think) which would be great for this, too.  Perhaps also a
> little sendfile() magic
I think I've found a very good candidate for doinbg the server part in C:
libwebserver (http://libwebserver.sourceforge.net/)

I will try to 'embed' this into Lua, as the setting-up of a 'server' is 
really very simple:
* init the server (port, logfile)
* register 'handler' function for URL shemes (this is where Lua would 
come in)
* run the server

The docu,mentation in the tar isclear with good examples,
and most importantly for me, the project builds out-of-the-box on 
windows (vc6) and linux.

If there is interst I'll post my progress,

-Martin