beast

Are you handling the obs-fold? Because this is something the joyent parser falls over at (a streaming parser must buffer the obs-fold to disambiguate). I don't see it in your code. If you handle it your parser can't be O(1) space. See the remark at the bottom of the Boost Beast parser docs for a hint at the trade off here: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/libs/beast/doc/html/be... I think the implementation is gold standard: https://github.com/boostorg/beast/blob/develop/include/boost...

> I think I had the best experience with Meson/Ninja so far. cmake lets you use ninja as the backend if that's your cup of tea. You can even set it to the default generator , by setting the CMAKE_GENERATOR environment variable to ninja. (I have no meson experience, so can't compare it). > I don't think that I have ever been able to successfully compile a project that uses CMake. That's quite the statement. In practice, I've found cmake -h. -Bbuild && cmake --build build to work about 90% of the time. Far more luck than I've had with autotools. > Its code is horrifying too, for example: 1) I'm sure I could find some horriffic code in meson too if I went digging. 2) The alternative to this is you having to write something equivalent in your own code, meaning that in my code I don't need to do stuff like [0] in my code to detect featur

Some other libraries I have seen for http protocol based applications: https://github.com/Qihoo360/evpp - network library for developing high performance network services in TCP/UDP/HTTP protocols https://github.com/rep-movsd/see-phit - C++ HTML template engine that uses compile time HTML parsing https://github.com/boostorg/beast - HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11 https://github.com/emweb/wt - Wt, C++ Web Toolkit

On July 20th, Beast was ACCEPTED into Boost without conditions. Beast is an HTTP and WebSockets protocol library using C++11 and Boost.Asio. The first official release will be in Boost 1.66.0 scheduled for December 2017. In the meanwhile, interested developers can use the develop branch: https://github.com/boostorg/beast There are a TON of example HTTP and WebSocket clients and servers that anyone can copy and use as the basis of their own robust implementation, check it out: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/libs/beast/doc/html/beast/examples.html