What’s New

cpp-netlib 0.12

• Added a code of conduct.
• Add TLS SNI hostname support in the HTTP Client options.
• Changes based on Coverity reports.
• Replace std::bind with lambdas.
• Use std::shared_ptr instead of boost::shared_ptr.
• Use standalone Asio instead of Boost.Asio.
• No Boost library (shared or static) dependencies.
• Use doxygen for documentation, integrated with Breathe to Sphinx.
• Require C++11 for builds, removes support for non-C++11 compilers.
• Update documentation for hello_world_server
• Use googletest for tests
• Fix XCode-generated debug binaries caused by URI parser complexity
• Remove synchronous client implementation.
• Remove support for connection keepalive (only supported in synchronous client).
• Disable SSLv3 by default.
• Use sanitisers in continuous integration (address and thread sanitiser).
• Update minimum Boost to 1.57. Always use shared libs from Boost.

cpp-netlib 0.11

v0.11.2

• Support a source_port setting for connections made by the client per-request.
• Allow using cpp-netlib without OpenSSL.
• Fix build breakage for Visual Studio 2015.
• Add more options for HTTP client use of SSL/TLS options/ciphers.
• Made client_get_timeout_test less flaky.
• Fixes to URI encoding issues with multibyte strings.
• Make cpp-netlib not crash on unstable networks.
• Allow parsing empty query parameters (#499).
• CMake build changes to simplify dependencies on cppnetlib-client-connections.
• Handle EOF correctly (#496).
• Fix fileserver example to chunk data correctly.
• Copy hostname to avoid dangling reference to a temporary request object. (#482)
• Catch exceptions in parse_headers to avoid propagating issues in parsing upwards.
• Fix some GCC warnings on signed/unsigned comparison.
• Support environment variable-based peer verification (via OpenSSL).
• Support IPv6 connections.
• Support certificate-based verification, and option to always verify hosts.

v0.11.1

• Add support for request timeouts.
• Build configuration fixes.
• Support for Travis CI in-project config.
• Make the response parser more flexible to support older/ad-hoc servers that don’t have standard format responses.
• Fix some instability in the client destructor.
• MSVC 2010 specific fixes.

v0.11.0

• Fix thread leak in DNS resolution failure (#245)
• Remove unsupported client_fwd.hpp header (#277)
• Remove support for header-only usage (#129) – this means that the BOOST_NETWORK_NO_LIB option is no longer actually supported.
• Deprecate Synchronous Client implementations (#279)
• Support streaming body chunks for PUT/POST client requests (#27)
• Fix non-case-sensitive header parsing for some client tags (#313)
• Remove unsupported Jamfiles from the whole project (#316)
• Add make install for Linux and OS X (#285)
• Fix incorrect Body processing (#69)
• Support chunked transfer encoding from HTTP responses (#86)
• Make OS X Clang builds use C++11 and libc++.
• Update Boost requirement to 1.54.0.
• Experimental Base64 encoding/decoding library (#287)
• Known test failure: OS X Xcode Clang 5.0 + Boost 1.54.0 + libc++ don’t play well with Boost.Serialization issues, mitigate test breakage but cpp-netlib-utils_base64_test still fails in this platform. (#287)
• Provide a client option to always validate peers for HTTPS requests made by the client. (#349)
• Back-port fix for #163 for improved URI parsing.
• Added support for client-side certificates and private keys (#361).

cpp-netlib 0.10

v0.10.1

• Documentation updates (#182, #265, #194, #233, #255)
• Fix issue with async server inadvertently stopping from listening when accepting a connection fails. (#172)
• Allow overriding and ultimately removing defaulted headers from HTTP requests. (#263)
• Add -Wall to the base rule for GCC builds. (#264)
• Make the server implementation throw on startup errors. (#166)

v0.10.0

• Added support for more HTTP status codes (206, 408, 412, 416, 507).
• Refactored the parser for chunked encoding.
• Fixed parsing chunked encoding if the response body has <chunk>CLRF<hex>CLRF<data>.
• Added librt dependency on Linux.
• Check the callback in the asynchronous client before calling it.
• Fixed issues #110, #168, #213.

cpp-netlib 0.9

v0.9.5

• Removed dependency on Boost.Parameter from HTTP client and server.
• Fixed for Clang error on Twitter example.
• Added source port to the request (HTTP server).
• Updated CMake config for MSVC 2010/2012.
• Now support chunked content encoding in client response parsing.
• Fixed bug with client not invoking callback when a request fails.

v0.9.4

• Lots of URI fixes.
• Fixed async_server’s request handler so it doesn’t make copies of the supplied handler.
• Fix for issue #73 regarding SSL connections ending in short read errors.
• Final C++03-only release.

v0.9.3

• URI, HTTP client and HTTP server are now built as static libraries (libcppnetlib-uri.a, libcppnetlib-client-connections.a and libcppnetlib-server-parsers.a on Linux and cppnetlib-uri.lib, cppnetlib-client-connections.lib and cppnetlib-server-parsers.lib on Windows).
• Updated URI parser.
• A new URI builder.
• URI support for IPv6 RFC 2732.
• Fixed issues #67, #72, #78, #79, #80, #81, #82, #83.
• New examples for the HTTP client, including an Atom feed, an RSS feed and a very simple client that uses the Twitter Search API.

v0.9.2

• Critial bug fixes to v0.9.1.

v0.9.1

• Introduced macro BOOST_NETWORK_DEFAULT_TAG to allow for programmatically defining the default flag to use throughout the compilation unit.
• Support for streaming body handlers when performing HTTP client operations. See documentation for HTTP client interface for more information.
• Numerous bug fixes from v0.9.0.
• Google, Inc. contributions.

v0.9.0

• IMPORTANT BREAKING CHANGE: By default all compile-time heavy parser implementations are now compiled to external static libraries. In order to use cpp-netlib in header-only mode, users must define the preprocessor macro BOOST_NETWORK_NO_LIB before including any cpp-netlib header. This breaks code that relied on the version 0.8.x line where the library is strictly header-only.
• Fix issue #41: Introduce a macro BOOST_NETWORK_HTTP_CLIENT_DEFAULT_TAG which makes the default HTTP client use tags::http_async_8bit_udp_resolve as the tag.
• Fix issue #40: Write the status line and headers in a single buffer write instead of two writes.
• More consistent message API for client and server messages (request and response objects).
• Refactoring of internal implementations to allow better separation of concerns and more manageable coding/documentation.
• Client and server constructors that support Boost.Parameter named parameters.
• Client and server constructors now take in an optional reference to a Boost.Asio io_service to use internally.
• Documentation updates to reflect new APIs.

cpp-netlib 0.8

• Updates to URI unit tests and documentation.
• More documentation, covering the HTTP Client and HTTP Server APIs
• Asynchronous HTTP Server that now supports running request handlers on a different thread pool.
• An initial thread pool implementation, using Boost.Asio underneath.
• Adding a ready(...) wrapper to check whether a response object returned by the asynchronous client in 0.7 already has all the parts available.
• Some attempts at lowering compile time costs.

cpp-netlib 0.7

• Radical documentation overhaul
• Asynchronous HTTP client
• Tag dispatch overhaul, using Boost.MPL
• HTTP Client Facade refactoring
• Bug fixes for HTTP 1.1 response parsing
• Minimized code repetition with some header macro’s
• Configurable HTTPS support in the library with BOOST_NETWORK_ENABLE_HTTPS

cpp-netlib 0.6

• Many fixes for MSVC compiler

cpp-netlib 0.5

• An embeddable HTTP 1.1 server
• An HTTP 1.1 client upgraded to support HTTPS
• An updated URI parser implementation
• An asynchronous HTTP 1.1 client
• An HTTP 1.1 client that supports streaming function handlers