I googled "httpd" and "C++ socket" ... I suggest that you turn to asio http://asio.sourceforge.net/ ...
Anounced just over a week ago was a beta release of Pion, an HTTP library built on top of ASIO:
From Mike Dickey:
I'm pleased to announce the 0.4.0 ("stable" beta) release of the Pion Network Library ("pion-net"). pion-net is a C++ development library for implementing lightweight HTTP interfaces. pion-net is open source software licensed under the Boost Software License, which allows anyone to use it for free in both commercial and non-commercial applications. pion-net uses the Boost and ASIO libraries to provide a web service plug-in framework for handling HTTP requests. Although it is more geared towards server-side applications, the latest release includes client-side capabilities as well (for sending requests and receiving responses, either asynchronously or synchronously). Support for HTTP 1.0/1.1, pipelining, chunked encodings, query and cookie parsing is all included. Currently, five development platforms are supported. For more information, please see http://www.atomiclabs.com/pion/net/. --- I'll let Mike add additional details as needed. I haven't used Pion, just briefly glanced through the documentation so far. Cliff