NAME

bozohttpd — provides access to libbozohttpd(3) functionality from Lua

SYNOPSIS

local bozo = require 'bozohttpd'

instance = bozo.new()

 

bozo.init_httpd(instance)

 

prefs = bozo.init_prefs()

 

bozo.set_pref(instance, prefs, name, value)

 

bozo.get_pref(prefs, name)

 

bozo.setup(instance, prefs, host, root)

 

bozo.dynamic_mime(instance, one, two, three, four)

 

bozo.ssl_set_opts(instance, one, two)

 

bozo.cgi_setbin(instance, bin)

 

bozo.cgi_map(instance, 1, 2)

 

req = bozo.read_request(instance)

 

bozo.process_request(req)

 

bozo.clean_request(req)

 

DESCRIPTION

The bozohttpd Lua binding provides access to functionality available in libbozohttpd(3).

EXAMPLES

The following example code demonstrates the process of instantiating an instance of bozohttpd as a background daemon. The instance is set to serve files from /var/www for the hostname www.example.com on TCP port 8080.

local bozo = require 'bozohttpd'
myhttpd = bozo.new()
bozo.init_httpd(myhttpd)
prefs = bozo.init_prefs()
bozo.set_pref(myhttpd, prefs, "port number", "8080")
bozo.set_pref(myhttpd, prefs, "background", 1)
bozo.setup(myhttpd, prefs, "www.example.com", "/var/www")
req = bozo.read_request(myhttpd)
bozo.process_request(req)
bozo.clean_request(req)

SEE ALSO

lua(1), luac(1), libbozohttpd(3), intro(3lua)

HISTORY

bozohttpd Lua binding first appeared in NetBSD 9.0.

AUTHORS

The bozohttpd Lua binding was written by Alistair Crooks <agc@NetBSD.org>.

BUGS

This manual needs more description of the available functionality.