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Rockets

A library for easy HTTP and websockets messaging in C++ applications.

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Features


It provides the following features:

  • HTTP server with integrated websockets support
  • HTTP client for making simple asynchronous requests (with or without payload)
  • Websockets client for sending, broadcasting and receiving text and binary messages

Build


Rockets is a cross-platform library designed to run on any modern operating system, including all Unix variants. It requires a C++11 compiler and uses CMake to create a platform specific build environment. The following platforms and build environments are tested:

  • Linux: Ubuntu 16.04, RHEL 6.8
  • Mac OS X: 10.9

Rockets requires the following external, pre-installed dependencies:

  • libwebsockets
  • Boost (for unit tests)

Building from source is as simple as:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/BlueBrain/Rockets.git
mkdir Rockets/build
cd Rockets/build
cmake -GNinja ..
ninja

Clients


Rockets provides client libraries for the following languages:

Contribute


Follow the next guidelines when making a contribution: