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Tags: Networking

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Muduo

9.6 3.3 L4 libcurl VS Muduo

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

9.5 4.3 libcurl VS KCP

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uWebSockets

9.5 8.8 libcurl VS uWebSockets

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

9.4 libcurl VS µWebSockets

Tiny WebSockets
Mongoose

9.3 9.4 L3 libcurl VS Mongoose

Embedded Web Server
C++ REST SDK

9.1 4.8 L1 libcurl VS C++ REST SDK

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

9.1 9.8 L4 libcurl VS Proxygen

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

9.0 0.0 L2 libcurl VS POCO

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.
WebSocket++

8.9 0.0 L2 libcurl VS WebSocket++

C++ websocket client/server library
cpp-httplib

8.7 8.6 libcurl VS cpp-httplib

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

8.4 0.0 libcurl VS RakNet

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

8.3 9.6 L2 libcurl VS libwebsockets

canonical libwebsockets.org networking library
nghttp2

8.3 7.5 L1 libcurl VS nghttp2

nghttp2 - HTTP/2 C Library and tools
cpr

8.2 8.4 L2 libcurl VS cpr

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

8.1 2.7 libcurl VS evpp

A modern C++ network library for developing high performance network services in TCP/UDP/HTTP protocols.
boost.beast(new repo)

7.9 7.8 libcurl VS boost.beast(new repo)

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

7.9 7.8 libcurl VS Boost.Beast

HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11
Simple-Web-Server

7.7 0.0 L4 libcurl VS Simple-Web-Server

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 4.9 libcurl VS wdt

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.
cpp-netlib

7.2 0.8 L2 libcurl VS cpp-netlib

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

6.9 2.9 libcurl VS netcode.io

A protocol for secure client/server connections over UDP
Onion

6.9 4.1 L4 libcurl VS Onion

C library to create simple HTTP servers and Web Applications.
libquic

6.9 0.0 libcurl VS libquic

QUIC, a multiplexed stream transport over UDP
Restbed

6.8 3.1 L4 libcurl VS Restbed

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

6.8 8.5 libcurl VS PcapPlusPlus

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, WinPcap, DPDK and PF_RING.
Silicon

6.7 0.1 L4 libcurl VS Silicon

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

6.2 0.0 L3 libcurl VS Dyad.c

Asynchronous networking for C
Simple-WebSocket-Server

5.7 0.0 L4 libcurl VS Simple-WebSocket-Server

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++.
dotenv-linter

5.3 7.9 libcurl VS dotenv-linter

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

5.2 0.0 L2 libcurl VS Tufão

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

5.0 0.0 L1 libcurl VS nope.c

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

4.9 7.5 libcurl VS RESTinio

Cross-platform, efficient, customizable, and robust asynchronous HTTP/WebSocket server C++14 library with the right balance between performance and ease of use
libhttpserver

4.7 5.7 libcurl VS libhttpserver

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

4.7 2.4 libcurl VS curlcpp

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

4.7 0.0 L3 libcurl VS net_skeleton

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

4.6 5.6 libcurl VS Seasocks

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

4.3 4.5 libcurl VS verdigris

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

3.4 8.8 libcurl VS IXWebSocket

websocket and http client and server library, coming with ws, a command line swiss army knife utility
Boost.Http

3.3 0.0 libcurl VS Boost.Http

Embeddable C++ HTTP server
netLink

3.3 0.0 L1 libcurl VS netLink

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

2.9 1.2 libcurl VS bredis

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

2.7 1.5 L1 libcurl VS tntnet

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

2.5 0.0 libcurl VS Breep

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

1.5 1.4 libcurl VS NetIF

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

1.2 0.3 libcurl VS crispy-fortnight

This my first repository in github
Pion Network Library

1.0 3.8 libcurl VS Pion Network Library

Pion Network Library (Boost licensed open source)
sock_connect

1.0 0.0 libcurl VS sock_connect

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

- libcurl VS ACE

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

- libcurl VS libjingle

Google talk voice and P2P interoperability library. [BSD]
C++ Workflow

- 9.5 libcurl VS C++ Workflow

C++ Parallel Computing and Asynchronous Networking Engine

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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 and TFTP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features