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

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Dominant language: C++
License: BSL-1.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 9, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 14, 2026
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Missing pending-buffer size cap in Strategy::rle triggers out-of-bounds write in copy_block Open

boostorg/beast#3109 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Need help/guidance on optimizing an embedded async http client inside an async https server. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

boostorg/beast#3107 · Opened Jul 8, 2026
Feature request: Add std::filesystem::path overload for file_stdio::open Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

boostorg/beast#3092 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 23, 2026
[perf tuning] benchmark shows only 200MB/s even with 128 threads Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

boostorg/beast#3064 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2026
io-context overwhelmed by small 16KB TLS reads limits high-throughput scenarios Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

boostorg/beast#3062 · 12 comments · Opened Dec 12, 2025
async_base::complete dispatches handler without using the operation's associated executor Open

Bug

boostorg/beast#3047 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 21, 2025
core::string_view Open

Doc

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

boostorg/beast#3046 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 20, 2025
Warning: memcpy forming offset [28, 128] is out of the bounds [0, 28] of object 'endpoint' Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

boostorg/beast#3045 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 13, 2025
Is `keep_alive` intentionally not implemented for `header`? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

boostorg/beast#3041 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2025
send many subscription messages with websocket client Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

boostorg/beast#3038 · 8 comments · Opened Oct 3, 2025
explore the no-masking extension Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

boostorg/beast#3026 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2025
zlib-ng for websocket permessage-deflate? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

boostorg/beast#3014 · 4 comments · Opened May 29, 2025
Its just a question about websocket::stream::async_handshake Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

boostorg/beast#3012 · 1 comment · Opened May 28, 2025
Examples in docs are broken (404) Open

Doc

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

boostorg/beast#3011 · 7 comments · Opened May 26, 2025
Support no-masking extension Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

boostorg/beast#2987 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 20, 2025
Websocket over SSL is very slow to compile Open

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boostorg/beast#2975 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 22, 2025
less use of auto in examples Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

boostorg/beast#2931 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 19, 2024
CI should build documentation on Windows platform Open

Doc

boostorg/beast#2851 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 5, 2024
Any possibility to make dependency on Boost not required(like ASIO does)? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

boostorg/beast#2843 · 10 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2024
http_client_sync example hangs on uploading ~2GB multipart data Open

boostorg/beast#2823 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 15, 2024
Custom Body Type or `response_serializer` for incrementally streaming large amounts of data back to the client Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

boostorg/beast#2777 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 21, 2023
Compile error when any_io_executor based websocket stream with bind_executor strand Open

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boostorg/beast#2775 · 10 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2023
Beast header parsing doesn't consume as many octets as it can Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

boostorg/beast#2737 · Opened Sep 8, 2023
Relax http response parsing? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

boostorg/beast#2674 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2023
client-only permessage-deflate still sends server headers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

boostorg/beast#2671 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2023
use boost::shared_mutex instead of std::mutex. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

boostorg/beast#2650 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 5, 2023
Some documentation pages are unexpectedly blank Open

Doc

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

boostorg/beast#2483 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2022
websocket reconnect example Open

Example

boostorg/beast#2430 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 21, 2022
tcp_stream causing SIGABRT | Boost 1.73.0 Open

Bug

boostorg/beast#2345 · 30 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 19, 2021
head request seems to be waiting for body Open

Design Feature Stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

boostorg/beast#2322 · 13 comments · Opened Oct 2, 2021
Proper Documentation on http::request and http::response Open

Doc

boostorg/beast#2214 · 12 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 15, 2021
Robust HTTP Server Example Open

Example

boostorg/beast#2205 · 24 comments · 6 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 24, 2021
Examples use executor_type Open

Example

boostorg/beast#2112 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 23, 2020
No gather interface for async_write Open

Feature

boostorg/beast#2033 · 33 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 22, 2020
Async websocket creates a large binary & object file Open

Optimization

boostorg/beast#2013 · 26 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 11, 2020
websocket_client_async_ssl_system_executor sample exits before connecting Open

Bug

boostorg/beast#2002 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 30, 2020
Tests use custom completion token instead of spawn Open

Test

boostorg/beast#1996 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 25, 2020
Deprecate one of token_list or opt_token_list Open

API Change

boostorg/beast#1894 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 7, 2020
extend v2 dynamic buffer support to ostream, icy_stream, http, websocket et al Open

Spec

boostorg/beast#1856 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 24, 2020
beast functions called on user defined types should be namespace qualified to prevent ADL Open

Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

boostorg/beast#1854 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 24, 2020
no examples using zlib inflate stream Open

Doc Example

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boostorg/beast#1813 · 18 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2020
Serialization state is part of message Open

Design

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

boostorg/beast#1810 · 8 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2020
Provide a method to determine serialization state (number of bytes of the body transferred) Open

Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

boostorg/beast#1787 · Opened Dec 20, 2019
Refactor multi_io_context Open

Feature

boostorg/beast#1784 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 19, 2019
Tidy up error declarations Open

Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

boostorg/beast#1767 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 15, 2019
Way to reduce compression on duplicate server messages Open

Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

boostorg/beast#1756 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 5, 2019
Document the executor's default completion token Open

Doc

boostorg/beast#1750 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 31, 2019
Basic Authentication example Open

Example Feature

boostorg/beast#1731 · 20 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 13, 2019
Better explanation of tcp_stream timeouts and websocket interaction Open

Doc

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boostorg/beast#1726 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 8, 2019
Allow gzip in zlib port (or steps to implement it) Open

Feature

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boostorg/beast#1719 · 22 comments · Opened Oct 5, 2019

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