Is there a serverside socket library?

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I'd prefer if the Lua socket interface could use our cSocketThreads class, since it's much beter suited at server usage. That would mean, however, that someone would need to write a Lua wrapper class and that the interface would need to be callback-based, at least in the receiving direction.

True, but I saw that LuaSockets has support for easy HTTP, FTP and more stuff which I thought might be cool.

Lua 5.1.4 is what my Garry's Mod IRC link thing uses, so it'd probably be less of a hassle for me to jump versions and make sure that everything I use in it didn't break/explode/annihilate an innocent family in 5.2

Do you think I can just take the libraries from there and put them in the same directory?

I don't know, I've never tried using external libraries in Lua but if I'd take a guess I think it'll work