C++ Networking

57 Networking libraries and projects

• libcurl

  9.8 10.0 L2 C

  A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
  

• Muduo

  9.6 2.4 L4 C++

  Event-driven network library for multi-threaded Linux server in C++11
  

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• uWebSockets

  9.5 8.4 C++

  Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications
  

• KCP

  9.5 5.2 C

  :zap: KCP - A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol
  

• cpp-httplib

  9.4 9.3 C++

  A C++ header-only HTTP/HTTPS server and client library
  

• µWebSockets

  9.4

  Tiny WebSockets

• C++ Workflow

  9.4 8.9 C++

  C++ Parallel Computing and Asynchronous Networking Framework
  

• Mongoose

  9.3 9.5 L3 C

  Embedded web server, with TCP/IP network stack, MQTT and Websocket
  

• POCO

  9.1 9.5 L2 C++

  The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.
  

• C++ REST SDK

  9.0 1.2 L1 C++

  The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.
  

• Proxygen

  9.0 9.2 L4 C++

  A collection of C++ HTTP libraries including an easy to use HTTP server.
  

• WebSocket++

  9.0 2.4 L2 C++

  C++ websocket client/server library
  

• cpr

  8.5 9.3 L2 C++

  C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests.
  

• libwebsockets

  8.4 9.4 L2 C

  canonical libwebsockets.org networking library
  

• RakNet

  8.3 0.0 HTML

  DISCONTINUED. RakNet is a cross platform, open source, C++ networking engine for game programmers.
  

• nghttp2

  8.2 9.7 L1 C++

  nghttp2 - HTTP/2 C Library and tools
  

• boost.beast(new repo)

  8.0 8.3 C++

  HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11
  

• evpp

  8.0 0.0 C++

  A modern C++ network library for developing high performance network services in TCP/UDP/HTTP protocols.
  

• Boost.Beast

  8.0 8.3 C++

  HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11
  

• Simple-Web-Server

  7.7 0.0 L4 C++

  DISCONTINUED. A very simple, fast, multithreaded, platform independent HTTP and HTTPS server and client library implemented using C++11 and Boost.Asio. Created to be an easy way to make REST resources available from C++ applications.

• wdt

  7.6 4.2 C++

  DISCONTINUED. Warp speed Data Transfer (WDT) is an embeddedable library (and command line tool) aiming to transfer data between 2 systems as fast as possible over multiple TCP paths.
  

• PcapPlusPlus

  7.5 9.4 C++

  PcapPlusPlus is a multiplatform C++ library for capturing, parsing and crafting of network packets. It is designed to be efficient, powerful and easy to use. It provides C++ wrappers for the most popular packet processing engines such as libpcap, Npcap, WinPcap, DPDK, AF_XDP and PF_RING.
  

• netcode.io

  6.9 9.0 C

  Secure client/server connections over UDP
  

• cpp-netlib

  6.9 3.0 L2 C++

  The C++ Network Library Project -- cross-platform, standards compliant networking library.
  

• Restbed

  6.8 6.1 L4 C++

  Corvusoft's Restbed framework brings asynchronous RESTful functionality to C++14 applications.
  

• libquic

  6.7 0.0 C++

  QUIC, a multiplexed stream transport over UDP
  

• Onion

  6.7 0.0 L4 C

  C library to create simple HTTP servers and Web Applications.
  

• Dyad.c

  6.2 0.0 L3 C

  DISCONTINUED. Asynchronous networking for C

• dotenv-linter

  6.1 4.9 Rust

  ⚡️Lightning-fast linter for .env files. Written in Rust 🦀
  

• Silicon

  6.1 0.0 L4 C++

  A high performance, middleware oriented C++14 http web framework please use matt-42/lithium instead
  

• Simple-WebSocket-Server

  5.7 0.0 L4 C++

  DISCONTINUED. A very simple, fast, multithreaded, platform independent WebSocket (WS) and WebSocket Secure (WSS) server and client library implemented using C++11, Boost.Asio and OpenSSL. Created to be an easy way to make WebSocket endpoints in C++.

• D++

  5.6 9.5 C++

  C++ Discord API Bot Library - D++ is Lightweight and scalable for small and huge bots!
  

• RESTinio

  5.5 6.8 C++

  Cross-platform, efficient, customizable, and robust asynchronous HTTP(S)/WebSocket server C++ library with the right balance between performance and ease of use
  

• libhttpserver

  5.3 2.6 C++

  C++ library for creating an embedded Rest HTTP server (and more)
  

• Seasocks

  4.9 3.5 C++

  Simple, small, C++ embeddable webserver with WebSockets support
  

• curlcpp

  4.8 2.9 C++

  An object oriented C++ wrapper for CURL (libcurl)
  

• Tufão

  4.8 0.0 L2 C++

  An asynchronous web framework for C++ built on top of Qt
  

• IXWebSocket

  4.7 6.2 C++

  websocket and http client and server library, with TLS support and very few dependencies
  

• nope.c

  4.6 0.0 L1 C

  WAFer is a C language-based software platform for scalable server-side and networking applications. Think node.js for C programmers.
  

• net_skeleton

  4.5 0.0 L3 C

  Async non-blocking multi-protocol networking library for C/C++
  

• verdigris

  4.4 3.7 C++

  Qt without moc: set of macros to use Qt without needing moc
  

• nanoMODBUS

  4.4 8.1 C

  A compact MODBUS RTU/TCP C library for embedded/microcontrollers
  

• mailio

  4.0 8.7 C++

  mailio is a cross platform C++ library for MIME format and SMTP, POP3, IMAP protocols. It is based on the standard C++ 17 and Boost library.
  

• netLink

  3.3 4.8 L1 C++

  Socket and Networking Library using msgpack.org[C++11]
  

• Boost.Http

  3.1 0.0 C++

  Embeddable C++ HTTP server
  

• bredis

  2.8 0.0 C++

  Boost::ASIO low-level redis client (connector)
  

• Breep

  2.7 0.0 C++

  C++ peer to peer library, built on the top of boost
  

• tntnet

  2.6 5.4 L1 C++

  Tntnet is a web application server for web applications written in C++.
  

• QuantumGate

  2.5 0.0 C++

  QuantumGate is a peer-to-peer (P2P) communications protocol, library and API written in C++.
  

• Barracuda App Server

  2.3 8.2 C

  Embedded Web Server Library with Integrated Lua Scripting Engine
  

• NetIF

  1.5 6.4 C++

  Header-only C++14 library for getting addresses associated with network interfaces without name lookups on Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD
  

• LiteNetLib++

  1.4 2.3 C++

  C++ lightweight and easy to use reliable UDP library for games
  

• crispy-fortnight

  1.2 0.3

  DISCONTINUED. This my first repository in github

• sock_connect

  1.1 4.2 C++

  Wrapper for linux TCP/UDP/unix/USB socket connections
  

• Pion Network Library

  1.1 2.7 C++

  Pion Network Library (Boost licensed open source)
  

• ACE

  -

  An OO Network Programming Toolkit in C++. [?MIT?]

• libjingle

  -

  Google talk voice and P2P interoperability library. [BSD]

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