Update: add these awesome ones!
https://pocoproject.org/
https://macchina.io/docs/
http://vinniefalco.github.io/beast/beast/intro/example.html
Goal: find the fastest possible C++ https library that can score an A on the SSLLabs test. Ties broken by ease of use, then by support for websockets.
Initial results (see wiki for latest…):
| LIBRARY | ab
MB/sec |
ab
pages/sec |
SSL LABS SCORE |
EASE | WS? | COMMENTS |
| apache | A | 3 | N | need to write a module, apache remains in charge of message loop (unacceptable) | ||
| libwebsockets | 7 | Y | ||||
| proxygen | 7 | only easy to build on ubuntu so hasn’t been stood up on my gentoo server yet; huge kitchen sink of helpers | ||||
| Simple-Web-Server | B | 10 | Y | websockets in a seperate compatible project; may be able to leverage asio to improve score (capped by RC4); no forward secrecy | ||
| websocketpp | uses asio, specifies a “modern” mode that only allows TSL1.2 | |||||
| mongoose | 3 | messy ton of hand-crafted portability C code scared me off | ||||
| onion | looks like a strong C lib | |||||
| libmicrohttpd | GNU c lib, not sure it supports modern algos, check score… |
