HTTP Request

Arcite · 03/02/14, 12:53 PM

I'm thinking of creating a chat/messenger extension for gmail + steam and need to make http requests although I haven't had any luck requiring any LUA libraries. I've hardly written anything in lua, just started this beta cycle so I might be missing something. Is it safe to assume that Bethesda disabled the ability to do imports like this for security reasons? I know WoW addons were able to send requests out. Maybe this is a feature they plan to enable later?

Curious to see if anyone has had any luck/researched this.

Pawkette · 03/02/14, 12:57 PM

No way out of the sandbox as far as I can tell.

Lemon King · 03/02/14, 06:18 PM

Very few games even have this api.
In WoW (Classic/TBC Era) what authors did was create an external program that wrote to saved variables, but including an EXE in the zip now is highly frowned upon.

**Wykkyd** · 03/02/14, 06:27 PM

You cannot even read a text file from the user's machine, let alone interact with anything more intricate or involved. 100% totally not possible via Lua, and no... you can't even trigger custom compiled code.

Mogoly · 06/16/14, 11:01 AM

Is it possible to force saving variables to file?

**Seerah** · 06/16/14, 11:37 AM

No, only on reload UI or log out.