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Copyright (c) 2013-2017 Vinnie Falco (vinnie dot falco at gmail dot com)
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)
]
[section Using HTTP]
[warning
Higher level functions such as Basic
Authentication, mime/multipart encoding, cookies, automatic handling
of redirects, gzipped transfer encodings, caching, or proxying (to name
a few) are not directly provided, but nothing stops users from creating
these features using Beast's HTTP message types.
]
This library offers programmers simple and performant models of HTTP messages
and their associated operations including synchronous, asynchronous, and
buffer-oriented parsing and serialization of messages in the HTTP/1 wire
format using __Asio__. Specifically, the library provides:
[variablelist
[
[Message Containers]
[
Complete HTTP messages are modeled using the __message__ class,
with possible user customizations.
]
][
[Stream Reading]
[
The functions
[link beast.ref.beast__http__read `read`],
[link beast.ref.beast__http__read_header `read_header`],
[link beast.ref.beast__http__read_some `read_some`],
[link beast.ref.beast__http__async_read `async_read`],
[link beast.ref.beast__http__async_read_header `async_read_header`], and
[link beast.ref.beast__http__async_read_some `async_read_some`]
read HTTP/1 message data from a
[link beast.concept.streams stream].
]
][
[Stream Writing]
[
The functions
[link beast.ref.beast__http__write `write`],
[link beast.ref.beast__http__write_header `write_header`],
[link beast.ref.beast__http__write_some `write_some`],
[link beast.ref.beast__http__async_write `async_write`],
[link beast.ref.beast__http__async_write_header `async_write_header`], and
[link beast.ref.beast__http__async_write_some `async_write_some`]
write HTTP/1 message data to a
[link beast.concept.streams stream].
]
][
[Serialization]
[
The __serializer__ produces a series of octet buffers
conforming to the __rfc7230__ wire representation of
a __message__.
]
][
[Parsing]
[
The __parser__ attempts to convert a series of octet
buffers into a __message__.
]
]
]
[note
This documentation assumes some familiarity with __Asio__ and
the HTTP protocol specification described in __rfc7230__. Sample
code and identifiers mentioned in this section is written as if
these declarations are in effect:
[http_snippet_1]
]
[include 5_01_primer.qbk]
[include 5_02_message.qbk]
[include 5_03_streams.qbk]
[include 5_04_serializer_streams.qbk]
[include 5_05_parser_streams.qbk]
[include 5_06_serializer_buffers.qbk]
[include 5_07_parser_buffers.qbk]
[include 5_08_custom_body.qbk]
[include 5_09_custom_parsers.qbk]
[endsect]