A few days ago to the sweet, sweet melodies of Billy Joel, I woke up in the wee hours of the morning to code up a very crude C web server. Of course, I tried to pass it off as a C++ implementation, but in reality I was pulling the wool over your eyes – the only C++ was used to build error messages, and the actual message to send down to the client. Not to mention it was a very crude, basic, implementation of socket handling in C. Nothing fancy.
Yesterday I was talking with some kind folks at the re:build 2011 conference in Indianapolis, and it got me to thinking that there aren’t enough examples of C++ applications talking to the web. You know, actual C++, using the boost libraries and what not. So this morning, after grabbing my amazing breakfast burrito at Henry’s in downtown Indianapolis I scoured the Internet and re-wrote my example application in Boost.Asio.
The code is much simpler, straight forward, and just damned better to look at. As always it is up and available at my Github account for consumption. If you’re interested in seeing the actual difference in implementations than go no further than right here.
I have a few more ideas on web services written in C++, but that’s for another day. Let me know if you have any questions. As always, enjoy the code and report any bugs.
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