Another?

Yes, this is another networking library, but I promise, this one is different. This library was created for humans to use. cURL is great, but there's one huge problem with it: It's a C library, which means it looks like a alien designed the API (just like everything that involves C).

This library was built using one of the worst library ever invented in the face of this planet: The GNU Sockets Library. This means I tortured myself to carve this library so you'll never have to torture yourself dealing with C libraries for networking.

What's inside the package?

This library comes with an implementation of Sockets (sockets.h) and a HTTP client (http.h), which means you can extend it to suit your needs (remember to submit a Pull Request).

Documentation

You can find the documentation for this awesome library at docs/.

Some examples

You can check out the examples in the examples/ directory, but I've pasted them here for your convenience.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

#include "libinet/sockets.h"
using namespace std;

bool socket_data_callback(string data) {
    // If something went wrong while you were parsing return false!
    cout << data << endl;
    return true;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    // Setup the socket and connect.
    Socket socket("localhost", 80, &socket_data_callback);
    socket.connect();

    // Send some information.
    socket.send_data("GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n");
    socket.send_data("Host: localhost\r\n\r\n");

    // Get the response.
    socket.receive();

    return 0;
}

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

#include "libinet/http.h"
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    // Setup the connection.
    HTTP http("localhost", 80);
    HTTP_Response response;

    http.add_header("User-Agent", "libinet++/0.1");
    response = http.request("POST", "/test.php", "Testing the POST body stuff.");

    // Print the raw response.
    //cout << response.raw << endl;

    // Print the response status (hope it's 200 OK).
    cout << response.status_code << " " << response.status_message << endl;

    // Print the headers.
    for (size_t i = 0; i < response.headers.size(); i++) {
        vector<string> header = response.headers.at(i);
        cout << header.at(0) << ": " << header.at(1) << endl;
    }

    // Print body.
    cout << endl << response.body << endl;

    return 0;
}

Contribute!

You think this library suck? You can fix it by submitting a Pull Request or a Issue!