We can see in these 2 lines of code that we are mixing STL with Boost:
boost::asio::streambuf request; std::ostream request_stream(&request);
Is there any STL class that can be used above, instead of boost::asio::streambuf?
I am trying to have a better feeling for the different implementations and choices among streams and buffers.
asio socket's member functions that write data to the socket, like async_write_some() or async_send(), get a ConstBufferSequence-complient buffer as a parameter: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/basic_str... http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/ConstBuff... There's a "buffer" class that can adapt virtually any physical buffer type to comply with ConstBufferSequence: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/buffer.ht... The free function boost::asio::write() is just a convenience function that one of its overloads take an asio::streambuf: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/write.htm...