Hi Mike, On Dec 11, 2007 4:28 AM, Michael Dickey <mike@mikedickey.com> wrote:
Dean,
I think we could combine cpp-netlib's messaging classes with pion's HTTP parsing classes to establish a basis for HTTP processing and provide client-side support for HTTP/1.0 and 1.1.
Great!
There's two possible approaches to this that I see, one is to merge a "server" space into the Network library:
boost::net::basic_message<> boost::net::http::request : public basic_message<> boost::net::http::response : public basic_message<> boost::net::server::tcp boost::net::server::http : public tcp
Another would be to create an independent "server" library that uses the Network library classes:
boost::server::tcp boost::server::http : public tcp
They both seem like sensible approaches to me. In either case, I think that HTTP would be a good starting focus for both, to get a working foundation incorporated into boost. We could always submit additional protocols independently for review as their implementations are finished.
What do you think?
I like the first one, where server:: is inside boost::net:: -- it at least makes more sense that way, and if boost::server would be more convenient, it can be pulled in appropriately with 'using net::server'. Would you mind committing the changes into the cpp-netlib subversion project first, then perhaps later we go ahead and put it into the boost sandbox? -- Dean Michael C. Berris Software Engineer, Friendster, Inc. [http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/] [mikhailberis@gmail.com] [+63 928 7291459] [+1 408 4049523]