Overview
WSAPI is an API that abstracts the web server from Lua web applications. By coding against WSAPI your application can run on any of the supported servers and interfaces (currently CGI, FastCGI and Xavante, on Windows and UNIX-based systems).
WSAPI provides a set of helper libraries that help with request processing and output buffering. You can also write applications that act as filters that provide some kind of service to other applications, such as authentication, file uploads, request isolation, or multiplexing.
WSAPI's main influence is Ruby's Rack framework, but it was also influenced by Python's WSGI (PEP 333). It's not a direct clone of either of them, though, and tries to follow standard Lua idioms.
WSAPI is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.1
Status
Current version is 1.1. It was developed for Lua 5.1.
Download
WSAPI can be downloaded from its LuaForge page. You can also get WSAPI using LuaRocks:
luarocks install wsapi
CVS and Bug Tracker
WSAPI CVS and bug tracker are available at its LuaForge page.
History
WSAPI 1.1 [04/Feb/2009]
- Adds options table to wsapi.request.new, *delay_post* option delays POST processing until req:parsepostdata() is called
- Moves call to lfs.setmode from wsapi.common to wsapi.cgi
- Adds wsapi.util.make_rewindable(wsapi_env) method - wraps wsapi_env in a new environment that lets you process the POST data more than once.
- Correctly handles PATH_TRANSLATED and SCRIPT_FILENAME in case the web server gets creative
- Statically links the FastCGI version on Windows
WSAPI 1.0 [18/May/2008]
- First public version.
- Includes CGI, FastCGI and Xavante WSAPI connectors.
Credits
WSAPI was designed and developed by Fábio Mascarenhas and André Carregal, and is maintained by Fábio Mascarenhas.
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