Server to codea

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  1. Question: Is it possible to connect a server to apps made with codea??

  2. Can you create a local server to codea (in codea), because then we could try to work with servers on Lua.

  3. Thx for answering me the question and for listening to my idea.

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Codea programs can certainly access servers, you can use http.request to read and write files from Codea to WebDAV servers for instance.

Example of various WebDAV commands here:

https://github.com/Utsira/WorkingCopyCodeaClient/blob/master/tabs/Request.lua

As for whether Codea code itself could act as a server, I guess that depends what kind of server you mean. Certainly it has LuaSocket, so your code can respond to incoming messages. I imagine that building a full-blown html server would be a bit more involved though

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Yes I have actually with my friend programmed a simple protocol over the internet with a server, with Codea as the client. LuaSocket is very versatile, and sockets can communicate with each other across languages (ie the game may be written in Lua, the server in Java).