Changes in b4? about beast HOT 8 CLOSED

Great. That collaboration is great news. One conspicuous omission in beast is the lack of url/uri handling. You can send and receive using beast but can't process non-trivial GET requests. I'm using Microsoft cpprest to process URIs right now, any plans in this direction?

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I hadn't actively planned it but I can probably cobble together a URI parser similar to the nodejs URI parser. I will add to the TODO. If having such a feature sooner rather than later will encourage the use of Beast and growth in its active user base, I would be quite motivated!

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One thing to consider if you do that is partial URL handling. Most URI parsers require a full "http://blahblah" thing or they'll barf. You don't get that with an HTTP GET, you only have the "/path/?key=value" stuff (the resource part of the URL).

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The nodejs parser parses the "scheme" if present, so I would include that as an option.

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Update: There is now a CHANGELOG file:
https://github.com/vinniefalco/Beast/blob/master/CHANGELOG

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The changelog mentions the new token_list,param_list stuff but the documentation doesn't really say what I use them for or how I use them. I also see you have both http::reason_string and http::status_text, which seem to do the same thing. Why have both, and is there one I should prefer?

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The documentation is a bit light on the rfc7230 helpers (token_list, ext_list, and param_list) so I've added a TODO to address it. As a stop gap I guess I could add example code to the javadoc. This is what it might look like:

    for(auto const token : token_list{"apple, pear, banana"})
        std::cout << token << "\n";

Would output:

apple
pear
banana

ext_list operates similarly except that it allows semicolon delimited parameters. For example, ext_list{"deflate;maxWindowBits=1,no_context_takeover"} would produce a list of 1 item, where that item is a pair with first == "deflate" and the pair second == param_list{";maxWindowBits=1,no_context_takeover"}

I believe status_text is obsolete, and I merely forgot to delete the file (its not listed in <beast/http.hpp>)

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The issues you brought up are partially addressed here (could use more in the HTML docs):
https://github.com/vinniefalco/Beast/pull/24

I'm going to close this, please open a new issue if you find another problem, thanks!

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