Re: Lua and networking - possibly basic question

[Adrian Sietsma <adrian_groups@...>]

Steve Kemp wrote:
>   I've been embedding Lua 5.0 into a lot of local applications 
>  recently and find it very nice to work with.
>
>   For some software I'm working with I'm looking to add basic
>  networking facilities, similar to the primitives people
>  are used to :
>
> 	connect
> 	read
> 	write
>
>   (I have no need for the bind() or accept() primitives.)
...
>   How do other people approach this problem?  (In composing this
>  mail I did a few searchs and see the existance of LuaSocket - this
>  might help me, if I can embed it within my code.  Too soon to tell,
>  but my natural reaction is to think that is overkill ...)

use LuaSocket. You probably won't need http, ftp etc; but why re-invent the 
wheel ? (you can always leave out the unused bits).

even if you are driven to roll your own socket implementation, you should 
still read the luasocket c source to see how Diego did it.

Adrian
(i have a co-routine threaded http proxy built on LuaSocket, and it is 100% 
reliable for my usage case).