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| Network support for the Lua language |
LuaSocket is a Lua extension library that is composed by two parts: a C core that provides support for the TCP and UDP transport layers, and a set of Lua modules that add support for the SMTP (sending e-mails), HTTP (WWW access) and FTP (uploading and downloading files) protocols and other functionality commonly needed by applications that deal with the Internet. This introduction is about the C core.
Communication in LuaSocket is performed via I/O objects. These can represent different network domains. Currently, support is provided for TCP and UDP, but nothing prevents other developers from implementing SSL, Local Domain, Pipes, File Descriptors etc. I/O objects provide a standard interface to I/O across different domains and operating systems.
The API design had two goals in mind. First, users experienced with the C API to sockets should feel comfortable using LuaSocket. Second, the simplicity and the feel of the Lua language should be preserved. To achieve these goals, the LuaSocket API keeps the function names and semantics the C API wheneve