Is there any way to use socket in a World Of Warcraft Lua script?

Question

I've tried to use: require("socket"), but I red on forums about WoW that I can't use the require command. Is there any other way to accomplish this? I'd like to pass data from the Lua thread to a Java thread.

Answer 1

You cannot use sockets, and there are no other way to communicate with other programs either. This is a restriction applied by Blizzard to prevent some forms of cheating, and to avoid malware propagation and other account security breaches.

In general you won't be able to communicate with third-party apps. There are workarounds, but they are hacks, they are likely to break in future updates of WoW, and they probably violate some terms of service.