How do I get text from a website.

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Ex Website: https://www.test.textFile.txt/

How would I get text from this site if the site contained the text:
"Hello World"

What I have tried:

Posting Http Requests to the site to get the text.

Posted 10-Sep-17 0:33am

The Chaotic Void

Updated 10-Sep-17 1:42am

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Graeme_Grant · Answer 1 · 2017-09-10T01:42:00

I don't program in LUA, but this Google Search should have something useful for you: lua http request[^] ... solutions like:

* LuaSocket: HTTP support[^]
* GitHub - daurnimator/lua-http: HTTP Library for Lua. Supports HTTP(S) 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0; client and server.[^]
* GitHub - pintsized/lua-resty-http: Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua.[^]
* GitHub - JakobGreen/lua-requests: Requests for Lua![^]
* Downloading web page using lua socket http.request - Stack Overflow[^]
* and lots more![^]