Re: Asynchronous HTTPS in Lua

[William Ahern <william@...>]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 08:20:25PM +1000, Choonster TheMage wrote:
> Does anyone know of any examples of asynchronous HTTPS requests in
> Lua? I've seen some examples of asynchronous HTTP using LuaSocket, but
> nothing with LuaSec for asynchronous HTTPS requests.
> 
> I'm writing a Lua interface[1] to a RESTful web API[2] which requires
> HTTPS requests for authenticated users. I'm looking into what it would
> take to rewrite the library to use asynchronous requests instead of
> synchronous ones.

My cqueues library supports this:

	http://25thandclement.com/~william/projects/cqueues.html

But it doesn't use LuaSocket or LuaSec. See cqueues/src/lib/socket.c for how
it uses the OpenSSL library. Specifically, so_starttls_, so_read, and
so_write.