Corona as a MUD/telnet client?

Here is a half-baked idea I thought I would throw out there…

If we had an api that allowed us to connect to a MUD type server… there are many things that we, as developers could do.
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sockets?

require (luasockets) << already part of corona

http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/ gets you started

note : any socket calls in corona are not threaded - they will lock the system until the socket call returns.

otherwise network request api is asynchronous
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