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Links:

• LuaSocket GitHub
• LuaSocker Introduction
• LuaSocket UDP example
• LuaSocket Reference
• LuaSec - SSL

Install:

• https://lunarmodules.github.io/luasocket/installation.html

• Install the Lua package manager luarocks. Optionally, install luarocks locally.

• Install luasocket:

  luarocks install luasocket
  

  or (locally):

  ./myluarocks install luasocket
  

To use encrupted protocols (https etc), the following rock is also needed:

    luarocks install luasec

 or (locally):

    ./myluarocks install luasec

Test installation:

cat > socket-test.lua << __EOF__
local socket = require("socket")
print(socket._VERSION)
__EOF__

./mylua socket-test.lua

Output should be:

LuaSocket 3.0.0