Christopher Kohlhoff wrote:
Wow! Given the encouraging response both on and off list, I guess I'd like to kick things off in turning asio into a serious proposal for Boost. I'll post a message in a day or two outlining some of the areas where I believe it needs refinement and where it could benefit from others' expertise.
Great! Here are some refinement/enhancement ideas: 1. Asynchronous versions of basic_host_resolver::get_host_by_name() and basic_host_resolver::get_host_by_address(). 2. IPv6 support. 3. SSL/TLS support via OpenSSL would be great. Datagram-level security using DTLS would be even greater, although not so important (OpenSSL 0.9.8 has DTLS support). Contrary to previous posters, I don't think you have to bother with HTTP support or examples - it's outside of the scope of this library, and should be implemented separately (on top of it) by another library.
Cheers, Chris
Peter