luasocket-2.0.2/samples/talker.lua

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-- TCP sample: Little program to send text lines to a given host/port
-- LuaSocket sample files
-- Author: Diego Nehab
-- RCS ID: $Id: talker.lua,v 1.9 2005/01/02 22:44:00 diego Exp $
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local socket = require("socket")
host = host or "localhost"
port = port or 8080
if arg then
	host = arg[1] or host
	port = arg[2] or port
end
print("Attempting connection to host '" ..host.. "' and port " ..port.. "...")
c = assert(socket.connect(host, port))
print("Connected! Please type stuff (empty line to stop):")
l = io.read()
while l and l ~= "" and not e do
	assert(c:send(l .. "\n"))
	l = io.read()
end