anchen1011 / HTTPRequest

Single-header C++ HTTP request class

HTTPRequest

HTTPRequest is a single-header library for making HTTP requests. You can just include it in your project and use it. HTTPRequest was tested on macOS, Windows and Linux, but it should work on most of the Linux-based platforms. Supports IPv4 and IPv6.

Usage

#include "HTTPRequest.hpp"

try
{
    // you can pass http::InternetProtocol::V6 to Request to make an IPv6 request
    http::Request request("http://test.com/test");

    // send a get request
    http::Response response = request.send("GET");
    std::cout << response.body.data() << std::endl; // print the result

    // send a post request
    response = request.send("POST", "foo=1&bar=baz", {
        "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    });
    std::cout << response.body.data() << std::endl; // print the result

    // pass parameters as a map
    std::map<std::string, std::string> parameters = {{"foo", "1"}, {"bar", "baz"}};
    response = request.send("POST", parameters, {
        "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    });
    std::cout << std::string(response.body.begin(), response.body.end()) << std::endl; // print the result
}
catch (const std::exception& e)
{
    std::cerr << "Request failed, error: " << e.what() << std::endl;
}

License

HTTPRequest codebase is licensed under the BSD license. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.