cpp-httplib
===========
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A C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library.
It's extremely easy to setup. Just include **httplib.h** file in your code!
NOTE: This is a 'blocking' HTTP client/server library. If you are looking for a 'non-blocking' library, this is not the one that you want.
Server Example
--------------
```c++
#include <httplib.h>
int main(void)
{
using namespace httplib;
Server svr;
svr.Get("/hi", [](const Request& req, Response& res) {
res.set_content("Hello World!", "text/plain");
});
svr.Get(R"(/numbers/(\d+))", [&](const Request& req, Response& res) {
auto numbers = req.matches[1];
res.set_content(numbers, "text/plain");
});
svr.Get("/body-header-param", [](const Request& req, Response& res) {
if (req.has_header("Content-Length")) {
auto val = req.get_header_value("Content-Length");
}
if (req.has_param("key")) {
auto val = req.get_param_value("key");
}
res.set_content(req.body, "text/plain");
});
svr.Get("/stop", [&](const Request& req, Response& res) {
svr.stop();
});
svr.listen("localhost", 1234);
}
```
`Post`, `Put`, `Delete` and `Options` methods are also supported.
### Bind a socket to multiple interfaces and any available port
```cpp
int port = svr.bind_to_any_port("0.0.0.0");
svr.listen_after_bind();
```
### Static File Server
```cpp
// Mount / to ./www directory
auto ret = svr.set_mount_point("/", "./www");
if (!ret) {
// The specified base directory doesn't exist...
}
// Mount /public to ./www directory
ret = svr.set_mount_point("/public", "./www");
// Mount /public to ./www1 and ./www2 directories
ret = svr.set_mount_point("/public", "./www1"); // 1st order to search
ret = svr.set_mount_point("/public", "./www2"); // 2nd order to search
// Remove mount /
ret = svr.remove_mount_point("/");
// Remove mount /public
ret = svr.remove_mount_point("/public");
```
```cpp
// User defined file extension and MIME type mappings
svr.set_file_extension_and_mimetype_mapping("cc", "text/x-c");
svr.set_file_extension_and_mimetype_mapping("cpp", "text/x-c");
svr.set_file_extension_and_mimetype_mapping("hh", "text/x-h");
```
The followings are built-in mappings:
| Extension | MIME Type |
| :-------- | :--------------------- |
| txt | text/plain |
| html, htm | text/html |
| css | text/css |
| jpeg, jpg | image/jpg |
| png | image/png |
| gif | image/gif |
| svg | image/svg+xml |
| ico | image/x-icon |
| json | application/json |
| pdf | application/pdf |
| js | application/javascript |
| wasm | application/wasm |
| xml | application/xml |
| xhtml | application/xhtml+xml |
NOTE: These the static file server methods are not thread safe.
### Logging
```cpp
svr.set_logger([](const auto& req, const auto& res) {
your_logger(req, res);
});
```
### Error handler
```cpp
svr.set_error_handler([](const auto& req, auto& res) {
auto fmt = "<p>Error Status: <span style='color:red;'>%d</span></p>";
char buf[BUFSIZ];
snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, res.status);
res.set_content(buf, "text/html");
});
```
### 'multipart/form-data' POST data
```cpp
svr.Post("/multipart", [&](const auto& req, auto& res) {
auto size = req.files.size();
auto ret = req.has_file("name1");
const auto& file = req.get_file_value("name1");
// file.filename;
// file.content_type;
// file.content;
});
```
### Receive content with Content receiver
```cpp
svr.Post("/content_receiver",
[&](const Request &req, Response &res, const ContentReader &content_reader) {
if (req.is_multipart_form_data()) {
MultipartFormDataItems files;
content_reader(
[&](const MultipartFormData &file) {
files.push_back(file);
return true;
},
[&](const char *data, size_t data_length) {
files.back().content.append(data, data_length);
return true;
});
} else {
std::string body;
content_reader([&](const char *data, size_t data_length) {
body.append(data, data_length);
return true;
});
res.set_content(body, "text/plain");
}
});
```
### Send content with Content provider
```cpp
const size_t DATA_CHUNK_SIZE = 4;
svr.Get("/stream", [&](const Request &req, Response &res) {
auto data = new std::string("abcdefg");
res.set_content_provider(
data->size(), // Content length
"text/plain", // Content type
[data](size_t offset, size_t length, DataSink &sink) {
const auto &d = *data;
sink.write(&d[offset], std::min(length, DATA_CHUNK_SIZE));
return true; // return 'false' if you want to cancel the process.
},
[data] { delete data; });
});
```
Without content length:
```cpp
svr.Get("/stream", [&](const Request &req, Response &res) {
res.set_content_provider(
"text/plain", // Content type
[&](size_t offset, size_t length, DataSink &sink) {
if (/* there is still data */) {
std::vector<char> data;
// prepare data...
sink.write(data.data(), data.size());
} else {
sink.done(); // No more data
}
return true; // return 'false' if you want to cancel the process.
});
});
```
### Chunked transfer encoding
```cpp
svr.Get("/chunked", [&](const Request& req, Response& res) {
res.set_chunked_content_provider(
[](size_t offset, DataSink &sink) {
sink.write("123", 3);
sink.write("345", 3);
sink.write("789", 3);
sink.done(); // No more data
return true; // return 'false' if you want to cancel the process.
}
);
});
```
### 'Expect: 100-continue' handler
As default, the server sends `100 Continue` response for `Expect: 100-continue` header.
```cpp
// Send a '417 Expectation Failed' response.
svr.set_expect_100_continue_handler([](const Request &req, Response &res) {
return 417;
});
```
```cpp
// Send a final status without reading the message body.
svr.set_expect_100_continue_handler([](const Request &req, Response &res) {
return res.status = 401;
});
```
### Keep-Alive connection
```cpp
svr.set_keep_alive_max_count(2); // Default is 5
```
### Timeout
```c++
svr.set_read_timeout(5, 0); // 5 seconds
svr.set_write_timeout(5, 0); // 5 seconds
svr.set_idle_interval(0, 100000); // 100 milliseconds
```
### Set maximum payload length for reading request body
```c++
svr.set_payload_max_length(1024 * 1024 * 512); // 512MB
```
### Server-Sent Events
Please see [Server example](https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib/blob/master/example/ssesvr.cc) and [Client example](https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib/blob/master/example/ssecli.cc).
### Default thread pool support
`ThreadPool` is used as a default task queue, and the default thread count is set to value from `std::thread::hardware_concurrency()`.
You can change the thread count by setting `CPPHTTPLIB_THREAD_POOL_COUNT`.
### Override the default thread pool with yours
```cpp
class YourThreadPoolTaskQueue : public TaskQueue {
public:
YourThreadPoolTaskQueue(size_t n) {
pool_.start_with_thread_count(n);
}
virtual void enqueue(std::function<void()> fn) override {
pool_.enqueue(fn);
}
virtual void shutdown() override {
pool_.shutdown_gracefully();
}
private:
YourThreadPool pool_;
};
svr.new_task_queue = [] {
return new YourThreadPoolTaskQueue(12);
};
```
Client Example
--------------
```c++
#include <httplib.h>
#include <iostream>
int main(void)
{
httplib::Client cli("localhost", 1234);
if (auto res = cli.Get("/hi")) {
if (res->status == 200) {
std::cout << res->body << std::endl;
}
} else {
auto err = res.error();
...
}
}
```
NOTE: Constructor with scheme-host-port string is now supported!
```c++
httplib::Client cli("localhost");
httplib::Client cli("localhost:8080");
httplib::Client cli("http://localhost");
httplib::Client cli("http://localhost:8080");
httplib::Client cli("https://localhost");
```
### GET with HTTP headers
```c++
httplib::Headers headers = {
{ "Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate" }
};
auto res = cli.Get("/hi", headers);
```
or
```c++
cli.set_default_headers({
{ "Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate" }
});
auto res = cli.Get("/hi");
```
### POST
```c++
res = cli.Post("/post", "text", "text/plain");
res = cli.Post("/person", "name=john1¬e=coder", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
```
### POST with parameters
```c++
httplib::Params params;
params.emplace("name", "john");
params.emplace("note", "coder");
auto res = cli.Post("/post", params);
```
or
```c++
httplib::Params params{
{ "name", "john" },
{ "note", "coder" }
};
auto res = cli.Post("/post", params);
```
### POST with Multipart Form Data
```c++
httplib::MultipartFormDataItems items = {
{ "text1", "text default", "", "" },
{ "text2", "aωb", "", "" },
{ "file1", "h\ne\n\nl\nl\no\n", "hello.txt", "text/plain" },
{ "file2", "{\n \"world\", true\n}\n", "world.json", "application/json" },
{ "file3", "", "", "application/octet-stream" },
};
auto res = cli.Post("/multipart", items);
```
### PUT
```c++
res = cli.Put("/resource/foo", "text", "text/plain");
```
### DELETE
```c++
res = cli.Delete("/resource/foo");
```
### OPTIONS
```c++
res = cli.Options("*");
res = cli.Options("/resource/foo");
```
### Timeout
```c++
cli.set_connection_timeout(0, 300000); // 300 milliseconds
cli.set_read_timeout(5, 0); // 5 seconds
cli.set_write_timeout(5, 0); // 5 seconds
```
### Receive content with Content receiver
```c++
std::string body;
auto res = cli.Get("/large-data",
[&](const char *data, size_t data_length) {
body.append(data, data_length);
return true;
});
```
```cpp
std::string body;
auto res = cli.Get(
"/stream", Headers(),
[&](const Response &response) {
EXPECT_EQ(200, response.status);
return true; // return 'false' if you want to cancel the request.
},
[&](const char *data, size_t data_length) {
body.append(data, data_length);
return true; // return 'false' if you want to cancel the request.
});
```
### Send content with Content provider
```cpp
std::string body = ...;
auto res = cli_.Post(
"/stream", body.size(),
[](size_t offset, size_t length, DataSink &sink) {
sink.write(body.data() + offset, length);
return true; // return 'false' if you want to cancel the request.
},
"text/plain");
```
### With Progress Callback
```cpp
httplib::Client client(url, port);
// prints: 0 / 000 bytes => 50% complete
auto res = cli.Get("/", [](uint64_t len, uint64_t total) {
printf("%lld / %lld bytes => %d%% complete\n",
len, total,
(int)(len*100/total));
return true; // return 'false' if you want to cancel the request.
}
);
```
### Authentication
```cpp
// Basic Authentication
cli.set_basic_auth("user", "pass");
// Digest Authentication
cli.set_digest_auth("user", "pass");
// Bearer Token Authentication
cli.set_bearer_token_auth("token");
```
NOTE: OpenSSL is required for Digest Authentication.
### Proxy server support
```cpp
cli.set_proxy("host", port);
// Basic Authentication
cli.set_proxy_basic_auth("user", "pass");
// Digest Authentication
cli.set_proxy_digest_auth("user", "pass");
// Bearer Token Authentication
cli.set_proxy_bearer_token_auth("pass");
```
NOTE: OpenSSL is required for Digest Authentication.
### Range
```cpp
httplib::Client cli("httpbin.org");
auto res = cli.Get("/range/32", {
httplib::make_range_header({{1, 10}}) // 'Range: bytes=1-10'
});
// res->status should be 206.
// res->body should be "bcdefghijk".
```
```cpp
httplib::make_range_header({{1, 10}, {20, -1}}) // 'Range: bytes=1-10, 20-'
httplib::make_range_header({{100, 199}, {500, 599}}) // 'Range: bytes=100-199, 500-599'
httplib::make_range_header({{0, 0}, {-1, 1}}) // 'Range: bytes=0-0, -1'
```
### Keep-Alive connection
```cpp
httplib::Client cli("localhost", 1234);
cli.Get("/hello"); // with "Connection: close"
cli.set_keep_alive(true);
cli.Get("/world");
cli.set_keep_alive(false);
cli.Get("/last-request"); // with "Connection: close"
```
### Redirect
```cpp
httplib::Client cli("yahoo.com");
auto res = cli.Get("/");
res->status; // 301
cli.set_follow_location(true);
res = cli.Get("/");
res->status; // 200
```
### Use a specitic network interface
NOTE: This feature is not available on Windows, yet.
```cpp
cli.set_interface("eth0"); // Interface name, IP address or host name
```
OpenSSL Support
---------------
SSL support is available with `CPPHTTPLIB_OPENSSL_SUPPORT`. `libssl` and `libcrypto` should be linked.
NOTE: cpp-httplib currently supports only version 1.1.1.
```c++
#define CPPHTTPLIB_OPENSSL_SUPPORT
SSLServer svr("./cert.pem", "./key.pem");
SSLClient cli("localhost", 8080);
cli.set_ca_cert_path("./ca-bundle.crt");
cli.enable_server_certificate_verification(true);
```
Compression
-----------
The server can applie compression to the following MIME type contents:
* all text types except text/event-stream
* image/svg+xml
* application/javascript
* application/json
* application/xml
* application/xhtml+xml
### Zlib Support
'gzip' compression is available with `CPPHTTPLIB_ZLIB_SUPPORT`. `libz` should be linked.
### Brotli Support
Brotli compression is available with `CPPHTTPLIB_BROTLI_SUPPORT`. Necessary libraries should be linked.
Please see https://github.com/google/brotli for more detail.
### Compress request body on client
```c++
cli.set_compress(true);
res = cli.Post("/resource/foo", "...", "text/plain");
```
### Compress response body on client
```c++
cli.set_decompress(false);
res = cli.Get("/resource/foo", {{"Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate, br"}});
res->body; // Compressed data
```
Split httplib.h into .h and .cc
-------------------------------
```bash
> python3 split.py
> ls out
httplib.h httplib.cc
```
NOTE
----
### g++
g++ 4.8 and below cannot build this library since `<regex>` in the versions are [broken](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12530406/is-gcc-4-8-or-earlier-buggy-about-regular-expressions).
### Windows
Include `httplib.h` before `Windows.h` or include `Windows.h` by defining `WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN` beforehand.
```cpp
#include <httplib.h>
#include <Windows.h>
```
```cpp
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <Windows.h>
#include <httplib.h>
```
Note: Cygwin on Windows is not supported.
License
-------
MIT license (© 2020 Yuji Hirose)
Special Thanks To
-----------------
[These folks](https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib/graphs/contributors) made great contributions to polish this library to totally another level from a simple toy!