how to parse http request in c++

Question

I\'m trying to write a small c++ webserver which handles GET, POST, HEAD requests. My problem is I don\'t know how to parse the headers, message body, etc. It\'s listening on th

Answer 1

Boost.Asio is a good library but relativel low-level. You’ll really want to use a higher level library. There’s a modern C++ library called node.native which you should check out. A very server can be implemented as follows:

#include 
#include 
using namespace native::http;

int main() {
    http server;
    if(!server.listen("0.0.0.0", 8080, [](request& req, response& res) {
        res.set_status(200);
        res.set_header("Content-Type", "text/plain");
        res.end("C++ FTW\n");
    })) return 1; // Failed to run server.

    std::cout << "Server running at http://0.0.0.0:8080/" << std::endl;
    return native::run();
}

It doesn’t get much simpler than this.