How do you make a HTTP request with C++?

Question

Is there any way to easily make a HTTP request with C++? Specifically, I want to download the contents of a page (an API) and check the contents to see if it contains a 1 o

Answer 1

There is a newer, less mature curl wrapper being developed called C++ Requests. Here's a simple GET request:

#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    auto response = cpr::Get(cpr::Url{"http://httpbin.org/get"});
    std::cout << response.text << std::endl;
}

It supports a wide variety of HTTP verbs and curl options. There's more usage documentation here.

Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of this library.