C++ Boost 1.66 using Beast http request Parser for parsing an string

Question

I'm not using beast http server in my project but I was searching for a solution to parse an http request in form of std::string in my program ,is it possible to use boost/beast/http/parser.hpp in this case and if so it would be Great if you give an example in code. Thanks aloot

Answer 1

Yes it is possible:

std::string s =
    "POST /cgi/message.php HTTP/1.1\r\n"
    "Content-Length: 5\r\n"
    "\r\n"
    "abcde";
error_code ec;
request_parser<string_body> p;
p.put(boost::asio::buffer(s), ec);