ledgetech/lua-resty-http

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2078 stars · 627 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua, supporting HTTP 1.0/1.1, SSL, streaming response bodies, keepalives, and request pipelining. It is production ready and distributed via LuaRocks.

Use cases

• make HTTP requests from OpenResty Lua code
• stream large HTTP response bodies with predictable memory usage
• pipeline multiple HTTP requests over a single connection
• reuse keepalive connections to upstream services in nginx
• make mTLS requests from ngx_lua
• propagate W3C trace context headers in outbound requests

When to choose

• you are building services on OpenResty or ngx_lua and need an HTTP client
• you need streaming or pipelined HTTP requests with low memory overhead
• you want connection keepalive pooling to upstream APIs

When to avoid

• you are not running OpenResty / ngx_lua (e.g. plain Lua or other web servers)
• you need HTTP/2 support
• you want a high-level REST client with retries and middleware out of the box

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client streaming middleware web-development backend apis developer-tools lua openresty ngx-lua cosocket http-1-1 keepalive pipelining mtls luarocks nginx

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