Re: lua-socket and jpegs

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> ok, I've got Lua socket up and running.  Is it possible to download a
> jpeg through a url like http://www.images.com/random.jpg through the
> http interface?  I'm not sure how to setup a sink for this kind of
> case.  Any pointers appreciated.

It certainly is.  You can save the data you receive to disk
or do anything else you may want to with it. Something like
this

    local s = http.request("http://www.images.com/random.jpg";)
    local f = io.open("random.jpg", "wb")
    f:write(s)
    f:close()

Can you try it?

[]s,
Diego