Re: A lightweight HTTPS library for Lua?

[Paul Merrell <marbux@...>]

We embed a light http library by Steve Kemp. Details in the attachment, exported from the NoteCase Pro Help file.  

Best regards,

Paul

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Title: Network Commands

Network Commands

This section classifies scriptable program commands related to TCP/IP communication.

The code for these functions was taken from http://www.steve.org.uk/
(made available by the author Steve Kemp under a LGPL license, with explicit allowance by Mr. Kemp to statically link the code in NoteCase Pro).

Original source code can be found here:
http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/lua-httpd/src/libhttpd.c

Modified source code with Windows portability patches can be found here:
http://www.notecasepro.com/download/src/libhttpd.zip



Table of Contents       

  net.accept
  net.bind
  net.close
  net.connect
  net.read
  net.write

net.accept

 Command      

  int net.accept(int nSocket)
    
Command returns the incoming connection socket using the socket that listens on some TCP/IP port.

Parameters:

  nSocket -- number of the socket that accepts connections (listening socket)
  

 Usage Examples    

[To be added later.]

Command usage is also illustrated in the following sample scripts:

  Command has not yet been used in a sample script.


 Command History    

Command was introduced in v. 3.4.2.

net.bind

 Command      

  int net.bind(int nPort)
    
Command creates the socket bound to some TCP/IP port (listening socket).

Parameters:

  nPort -- number of the port
  

 Usage Examples    

[To be added later.]

Command usage is also illustrated in the following sample scripts:

  Command has not yet been used in a sample script.


 Command History    

Command was introduced in v. 3.4.2.

net.close

 Command      

  net.close(int nSocket)
    
Command closes the TCP/IP socket.

Parameters:

  nSocket -- socket number
  

 Usage Examples    

[To be added later.]

Command usage is also illustrated in the following sample scripts:

  43_HttpTest.lua


 Command History    

Command was introduced in v. 3.4.2.

net.connect

 Command      

  int net.connect(string strHost, int nPort)
    
Command establishes outgoing connection to the specified host/port and returns the TCP/IP socket of the connection.

Parameters:

  strHost -- host name or IP string (e.g. "www.notecasepro.com")
  
  nPort -- port number (e.g. 80)


 Usage Examples    

[To be added later.]

Command usage is also illustrated in the following sample scripts:

  43_HttpTest.lua


 Command History    

Command was introduced in v. 3.4.2.

net.read

 Command      

  int, string net.read(int nSocket, int nTimeout)
    
Command reads up to a 4kB of data from the socket and returns the data size and the data itself.
You can call this command multiple times (in a loop) to fetch more than 4kB of data.

Parameters:

  nSocket – connection socket number
  
  nTimeout – connection timeout in milliseconds
  

 Usage Examples    

[To be added later.]

Command usage is also illustrated in the following sample scripts:

  43_HttpTest.lua


 Command History    

Command was introduced in v. 3.4.2.
Additional parameter nTimeout was introduced in v. 3.6.1

net.write

 Command      

  net.write(int nSocket, string strData [, int nDataSize])
    
Command writes specified data to the socket.

Parameters:

  nSocket -- connection socket number
  
  strData -- data string
  
  nDataSize -- optional size of data string (if you want to send less than the whole string)
  

 Usage Examples    

[To be added later.]

Command usage is also illustrated in the following sample scripts:

  43_HttpTest.lua


 Command History    

Command was introduced in v. 3.4.2.