Implementing a Client using Mongoose with C++

Question

I know how to implement a server with Mongoose, in fact all information that I could find was about servers, but I need to know how do I implement a client.

Very basic, how to connect to a server is the main problem, the send functions are pretty straight forward.

Answer 1

Mongoose is a web server and AFAIK does not provide an API for client side http requests.

For C++ http client libraries, you might want to look at these answers:

• What C++ library should I use to implement a HTTP client?
• A better C++ HTTP client library

These sites also give a good overview about available C++ client libraries:

• http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/competitors.html
• http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/links/libs

Answer 2

Mongoose actually does provide HTTP client functionality. See mg_connect() on http://cesanta.com/docs/API.shtml. Also, example HTTP client code is at https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/tree/master/examples/http_client

I suggest using Fossa library (a superset of Mongoose), as it's HTTP client interface is more flexible. Example code is at https://github.com/cesanta/fossa/tree/master/examples/restful_client , documentation is at http://cesanta.com/docs/fossa/