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HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11

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Dominant language: C++
License: BSL-1.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 9, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 14, 2026
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98 open issues indexed

Basic Authentication example Open

Example Feature

boostorg/beast#1731 · 20 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Document the executor's default completion token Open

Doc

boostorg/beast#1750 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Way to reduce compression on duplicate server messages Open

Feature

boostorg/beast#1756 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Tidy up error declarations Open

Bug

boostorg/beast#1767 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Refactor multi_io_context Open

Feature

boostorg/beast#1784 · 10 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Provide a method to determine serialization state (number of bytes of the body transferred) Open

Feature

boostorg/beast#1787 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Serialization state is part of message Open

Design

boostorg/beast#1810 · 8 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
no examples using zlib inflate stream Open

Doc Example

boostorg/beast#1813 · 18 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
beast functions called on user defined types should be namespace qualified to prevent ADL Open

Bug

boostorg/beast#1854 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
extend v2 dynamic buffer support to ostream, icy_stream, http, websocket et al Open

Spec

boostorg/beast#1856 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Deprecate one of token_list or opt_token_list Open

API Change

boostorg/beast#1894 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Tests use custom completion token instead of spawn Open

Test

boostorg/beast#1996 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
websocket_client_async_ssl_system_executor sample exits before connecting Open

Bug

boostorg/beast#2002 · 10 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Async websocket creates a large binary & object file Open

Optimization

boostorg/beast#2013 · 26 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
No gather interface for async_write Open

Feature

boostorg/beast#2033 · 33 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Examples use executor_type Open

Example

boostorg/beast#2112 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Robust HTTP Server Example Open

Example

boostorg/beast#2205 · 24 comments · 6 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Proper Documentation on http::request and http::response Open

Doc

boostorg/beast#2214 · 12 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
head request seems to be waiting for body Open

Design Feature Stale

boostorg/beast#2322 · 13 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
tcp_stream causing SIGABRT | Boost 1.73.0 Open

Bug

boostorg/beast#2345 · 30 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
websocket reconnect example Open

Example

boostorg/beast#2430 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Some documentation pages are unexpectedly blank Open

Doc

boostorg/beast#2483 · 8 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
use boost::shared_mutex instead of std::mutex. Open

boostorg/beast#2650 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
client-only permessage-deflate still sends server headers Open

boostorg/beast#2671 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Relax http response parsing? Open

boostorg/beast#2674 · 7 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Beast header parsing doesn't consume as many octets as it can Open

boostorg/beast#2737 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Compile error when any_io_executor based websocket stream with bind_executor strand Open

boostorg/beast#2775 · 10 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Custom Body Type or `response_serializer` for incrementally streaming large amounts of data back to the client Open

boostorg/beast#2777 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
http_client_sync example hangs on uploading ~2GB multipart data Open

boostorg/beast#2823 · 10 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Any possibility to make dependency on Boost not required(like ASIO does)? Open

boostorg/beast#2843 · 10 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
CI should build documentation on Windows platform Open

Doc

boostorg/beast#2851 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
less use of auto in examples Open

boostorg/beast#2931 · 7 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Websocket over SSL is very slow to compile Open

boostorg/beast#2975 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Support no-masking extension Open

boostorg/beast#2987 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Examples in docs are broken (404) Open

Doc

boostorg/beast#3011 · 7 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Its just a question about websocket::stream::async_handshake Open

boostorg/beast#3012 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
zlib-ng for websocket permessage-deflate? Open

boostorg/beast#3014 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
explore the no-masking extension Open

boostorg/beast#3026 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
send many subscription messages with websocket client Open

boostorg/beast#3038 · 8 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Is `keep_alive` intentionally not implemented for `header`? Open

boostorg/beast#3041 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Warning: memcpy forming offset [28, 128] is out of the bounds [0, 28] of object 'endpoint' Open

boostorg/beast#3045 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
core::string_view Open

Doc

boostorg/beast#3046 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
async_base::complete dispatches handler without using the operation's associated executor Open

Bug

boostorg/beast#3047 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
io-context overwhelmed by small 16KB TLS reads limits high-throughput scenarios Open

boostorg/beast#3062 · 12 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[perf tuning] benchmark shows only 200MB/s even with 128 threads Open

boostorg/beast#3064 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Feature request: Add std::filesystem::path overload for file_stdio::open Open

boostorg/beast#3092 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Need help/guidance on optimizing an embedded async http client inside an async https server. Open

boostorg/beast#3107 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Missing pending-buffer size cap in Strategy::rle triggers out-of-bounds write in copy_block Open

boostorg/beast#3109 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 14, 2026

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