Call a remote url?

cbyerley · 2014-04-26T00:31:33+00:00

Hello guys! I've just kicked out OpenResty 1.5.12.1 RC4 for testing: http://openresty.org/download/ngx_openresty-1.5.12.1rc4.tar.gz Changes since the...

Call a remote url?

cbyerley

Hello,

I am curious what the best method is to retrieve data from an external site from within a Lua file using OpenResty. Possibly something similar to ngx.location. Is this possible? If not then I assume I would use some Lua internals to do this?

Thanks in advance.

agentzh

Hello!

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:31 AM, develephant.net wrote:
> I am curious what the best method is to retrieve data from an external site
> from within a Lua file using OpenResty.  Possibly something similar to
> ngx.location.  Is this possible?  If not then I assume I would use some Lua
> internals to do this?
>

Just check out those lua-resty-http libraries out there, which are
based on ngx_lua's cosocket API.

Regards,
-agentzh

cbyerley

Fantastic! Thank you. If anyone else is interested, I went with this one: https://github.com/pintsized/lua-resty-http

Cheers.

On Friday, April 25, 2014 1:55:54 PM UTC-5, agentzh wrote:

Hello!

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:31 AM, develephant.net wrote:
> I am curious what the best method is to retrieve data from an external site
> from within a Lua file using OpenResty. Possibly something similar to
> ngx.location. Is this possible? If not then I assume I would use some Lua
> internals to do this?
>

Just check out those lua-resty-http libraries out there, which are
based on ngx_lua's cosocket API.

Regards,
-agentzh