1Simple-Web-Server [](https://travis-ci.org/eidheim/Simple-Web-Server) 2================= 3 4A very simple, fast, multithreaded, platform independent HTTP and HTTPS server and client library implemented using C++11 and Boost.Asio. Created to be an easy way to make REST resources available from C++ applications. 5 6See https://github.com/eidheim/Simple-WebSocket-Server for an easy way to make WebSocket/WebSocket Secure endpoints in C++. Also, feel free to check out the new C++ IDE supporting C++11/14/17: https://github.com/cppit/jucipp. 7 8### Features 9 10* Asynchronous request handling 11* Thread pool if needed 12* Platform independent 13* HTTPS support 14* HTTP persistent connection (for HTTP/1.1) 15* Client supports chunked transfer encoding 16* Timeouts, if any of Server::timeout_request and Server::timeout_content are >0 (default: Server::timeout_request=5 seconds, and Server::timeout_content=300 seconds) 17* Simple way to add REST resources using regex for path, and anonymous functions 18 19### Usage 20 21See http_examples.cpp or https_examples.cpp for example usage. 22 23See particularly the JSON-POST (using Boost.PropertyTree) and the GET /match/[number] examples, which are most relevant. 24 25### Dependencies 26 27* Boost C++ libraries 28* For HTTPS: OpenSSL libraries 29 30### Compile and run 31 32Compile with a C++11 compliant compiler: 33```sh 34mkdir build 35cd build 36cmake .. 37make 38cd .. 39``` 40 41#### HTTP 42 43Run the server and client examples: `./build/http_examples` 44 45Direct your favorite browser to for instance http://localhost:8080/ 46 47#### HTTPS 48 49Before running the server, an RSA private key (server.key) and an SSL certificate (server.crt) must be created. Follow, for instance, the instructions given here (for a self-signed certificate): http://www.akadia.com/services/ssh_test_certificate.html 50 51Run the server and client examples: `./build/https_examples` 52 53Direct your favorite browser to for instance https://localhost:8080/ 54 55
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