Re: Site Programing

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Sep 17, 2007, at 10:15, Daniel Silverstone wrote:

> > I don't know Spanish nor Portugese but if you want to use Lua for web
> > programming you should check out the Kepler project at
> > http://www.keplerproject.org
>
> Or Aranha (which is differently focussed and nowhere near as complete)
> which might fit better your requirements.
>
> http://www.digital-scurf.org/software/aranha

Or, while we are at it, HTTP.lua, which is 100% pure Lua at its core:

http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/HTTP.lua


Canonical 'Hello world' example:

local HTTP = require( 'HTTP' ) --import the HTTP module

HTTP[ '/hello(%a*)' ] = function( aName ) return 'Hello ' .. ( aName or 
'world' ) end -- define a handler

HTTP() -- run the HTTP server


% lua Hello.lua
GET /hello HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:54:26 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charst=utf-8
Content-Length: 11
Connection: keep-alive

Hello world


Using D. J. Bernstein's tcpserver [1]:

% ./tcpserver 0 1080 lua Hello.lua&

% telnet localhost 1080
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /helloyou HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:01:21 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charst=utf-8
Content-Length: 9
Connection: keep-alive

Hello you


That said, you might be better off using something more mainstream, 
such as CGILua:

http://www.keplerproject.org/cgilua/

Cheers,

PA.

[1] http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html