Chapter 1. Boost.Beast

Boost C++ Libraries

Chapter 1. Boost.Beast

Vinnie Falco

Copyright © 2016-2019 Vinnie Falco

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

Table of Contents

Release Notes

Beast API Version

Introduction

Requirements
Reporting Bugs
Credits

Simple HTTP Client 💡
Simple WebSocket Client 💡
Security Review (Bishop Fox) 🎦
WebSocket (Autobahn|Testsuite)

Clients
Servers
Servers (Advanced)
Chat Server 🎦

Timeouts 💡

Rate Limiting 💡

Layered Streams

Counted Stream 💡

Buffer Types

Writing Composed Operations

Echo 💡
Detect SSL 💡

Configuration

Configuration Preprocessor Definitions

Protocol Primer

Message Containers

Message Stream Operations

Serializer Stream Operations

Parser Stream Operations

Incremental Read 💡
Reading large response body 💡

Buffer-Oriented Serializing

Write To std::ostream 💡

Buffer-Oriented Parsing

Read From std::istream 💡

Chunked Encoding

Custom Body Types

File Body 💡

Custom Parsers

HTTP Examples

Change Body Type 💡
Expect 100-continue (Client) 💡
Expect 100-continue (Server) 💡
HEAD request (Client) 💡
HEAD response (Server) 💡
HTTP Relay 💡
Send Child Process Output 💡

Connecting
Handshaking
Decorator
Messages
Control Frames
Timeouts
Teardown
Notes

Body
BodyReader
BodyWriter
BufferSequence
BuffersGenerator
DynamicBuffer
Fields
FieldsWriter
File
RatePolicy
Streams

Design Choices

HTTP Message Container 🎦
HTTP Comparison to Other Libraries
Comparison to Zaphoyd Studios WebSocket++
FAQ

Release Notes (Moved)

Reference (Moved)

★ indicates a new or updated section in this version.

💡 contains example source code.

🎦 contains video presentation content

Documentation

Visit https://boost.org/libs/beast for complete documentation.