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Chapter 1. Boost.Beast

Vinnie Falco

Copyright © 2016, 2017 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

Introduction

Security Review (Bishop Fox)
WebSocket (Autobahn|Testsuite)

Quick Start

HTTP Client
WebSocket Client

Clients
Servers
Servers (Advanced)
Common Files
Documentation Samples
Composed Operations

Asio Refresher

Stream Types

Buffer Types

Writing Composed Operations

Echo

Example: Detect SSL

Protocol Primer

Message Containers

Message Stream Operations

Serializer Stream Operations

Parser Stream Operations

Incremental Read

Buffer-Oriented Serializing

Write To std::ostream

Buffer-Oriented Parsing

Read From std::istream

Chunked Encoding

Custom Body Types

File Body

Custom Parsers

More Examples

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

Using WebSocket

Creating Streams
Establishing Connections
Handshaking (Clients)
Handshaking (Servers)
Send and Receive Messages
Control Frames
Teardown
Notes

Body
BodyReader
BodyWriter
BufferSequence
DynamicBuffer
Fields
FieldsWriter
File
Streams

Design Choices

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

Last revised: December 05, 2017 at 23:48:19 GMT