Re: Q: luasocket https client?

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi Jim,

I don't see why you wouldn't be able to nest as many proxies
as you need.

> maybe my "create" function can return a proxy for socket with an
> overide for "connect" that does the ssl initialization.

That is exactly right.

> Not entirely clear how this would work since the ssl.wrap 
> function seems to return a proxy of its own. Should I set 
> a new metatable on self inside the proxy "connect" method? 
> Are we allowed to do that?

Why not?

The function you pass to "create" returns an object that
does all that. It starts as a table that has a field 'c', a
field connect, and a metatable that forwards all other
requests to 'c'. When somebody calls connect on this table, 
it simply calls connect on c, replaces c with a ssl.wrap, and
calls dohandshake on the new c. That's it, right?

[]s,
Diego