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- Subject: Re: Homemade email system using LuaSocket and LuaPOP3
- From: Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:25:34 +0200
On Sep 19, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Tim Caswell wrote:
> I don't know much about lua's standard network API's,
There is none., but LuaSocket is the closest to it:
http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/
But not necessarily suited for server side application. YMMV.
> but I'm working on
> binding to libuv (the network layer in nodeJS) to LuaJIT. <
> https://github.com/creationix/luanode>
>
> It's still a ways off, but it should make building the network half of such
> servers really easy.
Or one could outsource the entire networking part to something like tcpserver [1] or such.
On the other hand, sometime it's not so straightforward to decouple the networking from the protocol itself (e.g. STARTTLS). Sigh.
> Any parser logic can be shared as long as it's
> implemented to not do I/O itself.
Well, a parser need to read some input, write some output, manipulate the network connection.
[1] http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html
