slight modification to HTTP (affects returned file handle only)

the current problem with the http api is that the read mode of the file handle returned is in text mode instead of binary mode

my suggestion is to add an optional read mode to the functions that will determine the file handle's read mode



documentation:

http.get( string url [, string mode] )

http.post( string url, string postData [, string mode] )

http.request( string url [, string postData [, string mode] ] )

It isn't a real file handle so it isn't that simple. I do want to expand http though - watch this space.

Cloudy, on 11 February 2013 - 12:15 PM said:

It isn't a real file handle so it isn't that simple. I do want to expand http though - watch this space.

i know it isnt Java, and i dont know much about Java, but the C++ http api returns a file handle for the socket on success. could that be returned as userdata for the Lua environment?

What makes you think the C++ environment has any relation? It doesn't.

ok. cool.