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There are a lot of examples how to make HTTP request to a server and get reply via boost.asio library. However, I couldn't find a good example of simple interface and wondering, if I need to implement it myself.
For instance, if I need to get content of http://www.foo.bar/path/to/default.html, is there any way to get a content without validating URL, making HTTP request and parsing server answer?
Basically, I am looking for something like this:
std::string str = boost::asio::get_content("http://www.foo.bar/path/to/default.html");
std::cout << str;
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<HTML>
<BODY>
Simple HTML page!
</BODY>
</HTML>
There are couple of things that I would like to avoid using boost.asio.
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Since then, there is a newcomer; the C++ Network Library: cpp-netlib as pointed out here.
You wanted to use asio. I suppose you fancied the portability and the ease of use of this lib, so cpp-netlib will be a great choice in that case. It is based on same principles as boost and its authors aim at integrating it into boost.
It is pretty simple to use:
http::client client;
/*<< Creates a request using a URI supplied on the command line. >>*/
http::client::request request("http://www.foo.bar/path/to/default.html");
/*<< Gets a response from the HTTP server. >>*/
http::client::response response = client.get(request);
/*<< Prints the response body to the console. >>*/
std::cout << body(response) << std::endl;
I haven't tried this one but it seems to be possible to do exactly what you need:
cout << body(client().get(client::request("http://www.foo.bar/path/to/default.html")));
This question was asked a long time ago, sorry for digging it out of its grave.
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