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.
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.
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.