Re: [ANN] lua-http 0.1 release

[Andrew Starks <andrew@...>]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> wrote:
> 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!
>

This is excellent work! I'm glad to have found out about this.


--Andrew Starks