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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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<html>
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<head>
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<meta name="description" content="The LuaSocket Homepage">
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<meta name="keywords" content="Lua, LuaSocket, Network, Library, Support, Internet">
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<title>LuaSocket: Network support for the Lua language </title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="reference.css" type="text/css">
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</head>
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<body>
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<div class=header>
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<hr>
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<center>
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<table summary="LuaSocket logo">
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<tr><td align=center><a href="http://www.lua.org">
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<img width=128 height=128 border=0 alt="LuaSocket" src="luasocket.png">
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</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td align=center valign=top>Network support for the Lua language
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</td></tr>
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</table>
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<p class=bar>
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<a href="index.html">home</a> ·
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<a href="index.html#download">download</a> ·
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<a href="installation.html">installation</a> ·
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<a href="introduction.html">introduction</a> ·
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<a href="reference.html">reference</a>
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</p>
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</center>
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<hr>
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</div>
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<h2 id=whatis>What is LuaSocket?</h2>
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<p>
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LuaSocket is a <a href="http://www.lua.org">Lua</a> extension library
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that is composed by two parts: a C core that provides support for the TCP
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and UDP transport layers, and a set of Lua modules that add support for
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functionality commonly needed by applications that deal with the Internet.
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</p>
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<p>
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The core support has been implemented so that it is both efficient and
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simple to use. It is available to any Lua application once it has been
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properly initialized by the interpreter in use. The code has been tested
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and runs well on several Windows and Unix platforms. </p>
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<p>
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Among the support modules, the most commonly used implement the
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<a href=smtp.html>SMTP</a>
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(sending e-mails),
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<a href=http.html>HTTP</a>
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(WWW access) and
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<a href=ftp.html>FTP</a>
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(uploading and downloading files) client
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protocols. These provide a very natural and generic interface to the
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functionality defined by each protocol.
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In addition, you will find that the
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<a href=mime.html>MIME</a> (common encodings),
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<a href=url.html>URL</a>
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(anything you could possible want to do with one) and
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<a href=ltn12.html>LTN12</a>
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(filters, sinks, sources and pumps) modules can be very handy.
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</p>
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<p>
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The library is available under the same
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<a href="http://www.lua.org/copyright.html">
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terms and conditions</a> as the Lua language, the MIT license. The idea is
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that if you can use Lua in a project, you should also be able to use
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LuaSocket.
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</p>
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<p>
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Copyright © 2004-2007 Diego Nehab. All rights reserved. <br>
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Author: <A href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~diego">Diego Nehab</a>
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</p>
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<h2 id=download>Download</h2>
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<p>
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LuaSocket version 2.0.3 is now available for download! It is
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compatible with Lua 5.1, and has
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been tested on Windows XP, Linux, and Mac OS X. Chances
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are it works well on most UNIX distributions and Windows flavors.
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</p>
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<p>
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The library can be downloaded in source code from the
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<a href=http://luaforge.net/projects/luasocket/>LuaSocket
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project page</a> at LuaForge.
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Besides the full C and Lua source code for the library, the distribution
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contains several examples, this user's manual and basic test procedures.
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</p>
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<p>
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Danilo Tuler is maintaining Win32 binaries for LuaSocket, which are also
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available from LuaForge. These are compatible with the
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<a href=http://luaforge.net/projects/luabinaries>LuaBinaries</a>,
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also available from LuaForge.
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</p>
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<p> Take a look at the <a
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href=installation.html>installation</a> section of the
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manual to find out how to properly install the library.
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</p>
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<h2 id=thanks>Special thanks</h2>
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<p>
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Throughout LuaSocket's history, many people gave suggestions
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that helped improve it. For that, I thank the Lua community.
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Special thanks go to David Burgess, who has helped push the
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library to a new level of quality and from whom I have
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learned a lot of stuff that doesn't show up in RFCs.
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Special thanks also to Carlos Cassino, who played a big part
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in the extensible design seen in the C core of LuaSocket
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2.0. Mike Pall has been helping a lot too! Thanks to you
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all!
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</p>
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<h2 id=new>What's New</h2>
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<p>
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2.0.3 is just a bug-fix/update release.
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li> Fixed: manual sample of HTTP authentication now uses correct
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"authorization" header (Alexandre Ittner);
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<li> Fixed: receive() returns immediatelly if prefix can satisfy
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bytes requested (M Joonas Pihlaja);
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<li> Fixed: multicast didn't work on Windows, or anywhere
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else for that matter (Herbert Leuwer, Adrian Sietsma);
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<li> Fixed: select() now reports an error when called with more
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sockets than FD_SETSIZE (Lorenzo Leonini);
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<li> Fixed: manual links to home.html changed to index.html (Robert Hahn);
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<li> Fixed: mime.unb64() would return an empty string on results that started
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with a null character (Robert Raschke);
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<li> Fixed: HTTP now automatically redirects on 303 and 307 (Jonathan Gray);
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<li> Fixed: calling sleep() with negative numbers could
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block forever, wasting CPU. Now it returns immediately (MPB);
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<li> Improved: FTP commands are now sent in upper case to
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help buggy servers (Anders Eurenius);
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<li> Improved: known headers now sent in canonic
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capitalization to help buggy servers (Joseph Stewart);
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<li> Improved: Clarified tcp:receive() in the manual (MPB);
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<li> Improved: Decent makefiles (LHF).
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</ul>
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<h2 id=old>Old Versions</h2>
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<p>
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All previous versions of the LuaSocket library can be downloaded <a
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href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~diego/professional/luasocket/old">
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here</a>. Although these versions are no longer supported, they are
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still available for those that have compatibility issues.
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</p>
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<div class=footer>
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<hr>
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<center>
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<p class=bar>
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<a href="index.html#download">download</a> ·
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<a href="installation.html">installation</a> ·
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<a href="introduction.html">introduction</a> ·
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<a href="reference.html">reference</a>
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</p>
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<p>
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<small>
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Last modified by Diego Nehab on <br>
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Wed Oct 3 02:07:59 BRT 2007
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</small>
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</p>
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</center>
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>
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