<p>Does anyone know of a Jabber library for Lua?  I've found the 'Lua Messaging Library' for AIM, although I can't find a download for it, it appears to be abandoned.</p>

<p>Something like that for Lua would be helpful.</p>

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<p>I'm sorry I didn't state this originally, I meant a 'pure Lua' library.</p>

<p>I'm familiar with Verse, but don't have the option of building my own Lua distribution for this particular application.</p>

Verse
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Verse is a Jabber/XMPP library for Lua. It is based on the C version of the strophe library.
One handy feature of verse is that only the core protocol is implemented by default. Extensions to the protocol (either XEPs, or custom-made protocols) can be 'described', and then used by any verse application. It is the developer's intention to include support for as many XEPs as possible with verse, any number of which can be optionally loaded by the application when initialising the library.
Kind Regards