Show HN: Building Pastebin for text using Nginx and Lua (opens in new tab)

> Everything goes over an encrypted TLS connection, so nobody other than the intended recipient (and us. And probably CloudFlare, and maybe Google. But that's it.) can see what you're pasting.

This is funny. Liked the sense of humor over the irony. :) It does look pretty.

Lovely pastebin you made there! One nit to pick:

“With a default expiration time of one day”

But the default expiration time was one month when I clicked the button to create a new paste.

Nice work, though!

That's basically why I dislike languages like this. I used to write World of Warcraft AddOns in lua. Refactoring was a pain. There'd often be some edge case I'd only notice days later where now a function argument was missing, was not passed in, or was mistyped for example.

As long as you never assign to it, `nill == nil`!

It's not just nginx; openresty adds a lot of features that go way beyond what plain nginx can do.

Ignorance is a bliss! Love it.

Looks like the encoding can be improved

I found this recently https://topaz.github.io/paste/ where the entirety of the paste is stored base64 encoded in the URL.

Yeah, IIRC originally the nginx/lua integration was more about dynamically extending the core features and configuration, like virtual hosts or proxies.

But that does get you a pretty high-speed interface, if you're willing to bet your money on both nginx and lua.

There are some higher-level abstractions available, like lapis[1], which powers itch.io.

[1]: https://leafo.net/lapis/