2023-08-15 19:56:36 (UTC-03:00)

Marcel Rodrigues <marcelgmr@gmail.com>

allow payload to be read from file

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 07a2ad6..eb29621 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ In addition to "data" (i.e. payload), "status", "reason" and "cookies",
 the response object can also optionally include the "headers" value.
 This should be a table with additional response headers.
 
+If the response has an "fname" field instead of "data", then the payload
+will be read from the file named in that field.
+
 = templates
 
 ```

diff --git a/lib/ludweb/http.lua b/lib/ludweb/http.lua
index e267921..e9cff9f 100644
--- a/lib/ludweb/http.lua
+++ b/lib/ludweb/http.lua
@@ -162,6 +162,15 @@ local function new_http()
         if type(resp) == "string" then
             resp = {data=resp, status=status, reason=reason, cookies=cookies}
         end
+        if resp.fname ~= nil then
+            local fp = io.open(resp.fname)
+            if fp == nil then
+                resp.data = "file not found"
+            else
+                resp.data = fp:read("*a")
+                fp:close()
+            end
+        end
         local keep_alive = req.headers.connection ~= "close"
         -- randomly close some connections to save resources
         if keep_alive and math.random(32) == 1 then