Boost.ASIO-based HTTP client library (like libcurl)

c++ http curl boost-asio
Tronic picture Tronic · Feb 12, 2010 · Viewed 54.5k times · Source

I am looking for a modern C++ HTTP library because libcurl's shortcomings are difficult to work around by C++ wrappers. Solutions based on Boost.ASIO, which has become the de-facto C++ TCP library, are preferred.

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Manuel picture Manuel · Feb 12, 2010

The other day somebody recommended this on another thread:

http://cpp-netlib.github.com/

I think this is as high-level as you will find, but I'm not sure if it's mature enough yet (I would say it probably is since they've proposed it for Boost inclusion).

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