[ANN] lua-http 0.1 release

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

Hi All,

I'm happy to announce the first release of lua-http.

lua-http is a library that hopes to provide all HTTP operations you
should ever need.
In addition to all the low-level parsing and serialising operations
you might expect,
lua-http provides high level interfaces for writing your own HTTP
server or performing HTTP requests.
I'd endeavoured to make behaviour as configurable as possible yet have
sensible defaults.

Features:

  - Support for HTTP versions 1, 1.1 and 2 (yes! HTTP/2 support)
  - Provides both client and server APIs
  - Friendly request API with sensible defaults for security
  - All operations are fully non-blocking and can be managed with cqueues
  - Support for WebSockets (client and server), including ping/pong,
binary data transfer and TLS encryption.
  - Transport Layer Security (TLS) - lua-http supports HTTPS and WSS
via luaossl.
  - luasocket compatibility API if you're looking to use lua-http with
older projects.

Check the manual to learn the API, or read through and run the samples
in the 'examples/' directory in the source tree.

This release has been a long time in the making!
For an unreleased library it already has over a hundred stars on
Github, and has had contributions from 5 others.
I'd like to give a special thanks to @RussellHaley, @ChickenNuggers,
@leafo, @vavrusa and @torhve for being early users and providing
feedback, as well as @wahern for dealing with all my cqueues and
luaossl feature requests.

Links:
  - Release page: https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/releases/tag/v0.1
  - Homepage: https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http
  - Documentation: https://daurnimator.github.io/lua-http/
  - Bug tracker: https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/issues
  - On luarocks: https://luarocks.org/modules/daurnimator/http
  - Examples: https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/tree/master/examples
  - Me: http://daurnimator.com/

Enjoy!