async_web_server_cpp

Asynchronous Web/WebSocket Server in C++

An implementation of an HTTP web server in C++ built on top of the Boost.Asio Library. It also provides the ability to handle websocket upgrade requests.

License

async_web_server_cpp is released with a BSD license. For full terms and conditions, see the LICENSE file.

Original Authors

This package is a fork from the now defunct GT-RAIL async_web_server_cpp package. It was originally written by Mitchell Wills and later maintained by Russell Toris.

It is maintained by Timo Röhling now.

Changelog for package async_web_server_cpp

2.0.0 (2021-01-14)

• New ROS 2 port
  • ROS 2 releases will have version numbers 2.x
  • ROS 1 releases will continue with version numbers 1.x

1.0.2 (2021-01-12)

• Fix integer comparisons
• Use HTTP/1.1 reply for WebSockets protocol upgrade
• Contributors: Timo Röhling

1.0.1 (2021-01-12)

• New maintainer: Timo Röhling
• Merge outstanding pull requests GT-RAIL#14: Fix compatibility issue with Apache2 websocket proxy GT-RAIL#16: Fix C++ include path for unit tests (obsolete) GT-RAIL#19: Fix Python 3 compatibility for unit tests
• Modernize CMakeLists.txt
• Auto-detect MIME types from file extensions

0.0.3 (2015-08-18)

• Merge pull request #6 from mitchellwills/develop Added some tests
• Added filesystem tests
• Added some more tests (including websocket tests)
• Added some more http tests
• Added an echo test and enabled tests on travis
• Began working on some tests
• Fixed missing boost dep
• Merge pull request #5 from mitchellwills/develop Some more improvements
• Added filesystem request handler This serves both files from a given root and directory listings (if requested)
• Modified request handler signature so that it can reject requests (causing them to be pushed to the next handler in a handler group)
• Now load a file to be served each time it is requested
• Fix HTTP Server stop to allow it to be safe to call multiple times
• Merge pull request #4 from mitchellwills/develop A few small improvements
• Allow for a server to be created even if the system has no non-local IP See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5971242/how-does-boost-asios-hostname-resolution-work-on-linux-is-it-possible-to-use-n
• Changed write resource to be a const shared ptr
• Contributors: Mitchell Wills, Russell Toris

0.0.2 (2015-01-06)

• Merge pull request #3 from mitchellwills/develop Added support for specifying additional headers when creating static request handlers
• Added some comments to the HTTP reply methods
• Added support for specifying additional headers when creating static request handlers
• Contributors: Mitchell Wills, Russell Toris

0.0.1 (2014-12-02)

• OCD clenup
• Merge pull request #2 from mitchellwills/develop Few small fixes
• Fixed message processing so close message is actually passed through
• Fixed potential memory leak from boost shared_ptr misuse
• Merge pull request #1 from mitchellwills/develop Import of initial implementation from webrtc_ros repo
• Fixed install directives
• Added some documentation
• Added more metadata files
• Cleaned up file formatting
• Fixed compilation error on 12.04
• Added boost dependancy
• Added travis configuration
• Package cleanup
• renamed package to async_web_server_cpp
• Initial import of cpp_web_server from webrtc_ros
• Initial commit
• Contributors: Mitchell Wills, Russell Toris