#!/usr/bin/env lua --[[ A simple HTTP server If a request is not a HEAD method, then reply with "Hello world!" Usage: lua examples/server_hello.lua [] ]] local port = arg[1] or 0 -- 0 means pick one at random local http_server = require "http.server" local http_headers = require "http.headers" local function reply(myserver, stream) -- luacheck: ignore 212 -- Read in headers local req_headers = assert(stream:get_headers()) local req_method = req_headers:get ":method" -- Log request to stdout assert(io.stdout:write(string.format('[%s] "%s %s HTTP/%g" "%s" "%s"\n', os.date("%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z"), req_method or "", req_headers:get(":path") or "", stream.connection.version, req_headers:get("referer") or "-", req_headers:get("user-agent") or "-" ))) -- Build response headers local res_headers = http_headers.new() res_headers:append(":status", "200") res_headers:append("content-type", "text/plain") -- Send headers to client; end the stream immediately if this was a HEAD request assert(stream:write_headers(res_headers, req_method == "HEAD")) if req_method ~= "HEAD" then -- Send body, ending the stream assert(stream:write_chunk("Hello world!\n", true)) end end local myserver = assert(http_server.listen { host = "localhost"; port = port; onstream = reply; onerror = function(myserver, context, op, err, errno) -- luacheck: ignore 212 local msg = op .. " on " .. tostring(context) .. " failed" if err then msg = msg .. ": " .. tostring(err) end assert(io.stderr:write(msg, "\n")) end; }) -- Manually call :listen() so that we are bound before calling :localname() assert(myserver:listen()) do local bound_port = select(3, myserver:localname()) assert(io.stderr:write(string.format("Now listening on port %d\n", bound_port))) end -- Start the main server loop assert(myserver:loop())