ithewei/libhv

Features

• Network Protocol Implementations - Implements a wide array of network communication protocols including TCP, UDP, SSL, HTTP, WebSocket, and MQTT.
• Network Server Implementations - Implements high-performance server capabilities for TCP, UDP, SSL, HTTP, WebSocket, and MQTT.
• Network Service Frameworks - Provides a comprehensive framework for building TCP, UDP, SSL, HTTP, WebSocket, and MQTT clients and servers.
• Event-Driven I/O - Provides a high-performance event-driven I/O framework to handle massive volumes of concurrent connections.
• MQTT Clients - Implements a lightweight MQTT client for publishing and subscribing to messages via brokers.
• Web Servers and APIs - Includes a full HTTP server implementation with support for document roots and file uploads.
• MQTT Messaging Integrations - Implements an MQTT client to enable lightweight publish-subscribe messaging patterns for IoT communication.
• C++ Networking Libraries - A high-performance networking library providing TCP, UDP, SSL, HTTP, WebSocket, and MQTT implementations for C++.
• Publish-Subscribe Messaging - Implements a lightweight publish-subscribe messaging model via the MQTT protocol.
• MQTT Clients - Implements a lightweight MQTT client for publish-subscribe messaging in IoT and machine-to-machine environments.
• Network Communication Implementations - Provides the concrete implementation of communication logic for multiple standard network protocols.
• WebSocket Clients and Servers - Implements both client and server sides of the bidirectional WebSocket protocol for real-time communication.
• WebSocket Servers - Implements server-side management of persistent, bidirectional communication channels for real-time data exchange.
• HTTP/2 Support - Supports the implementation of the HTTP/2 protocol, including multiplexing and secure connections.
• HTTP and WebSocket Clients - Implements both HTTP and WebSocket clients and servers for versatile web service development.
• HTTP Servers - Provides a high-performance HTTP server for processing incoming web requests using handler functions.
• HTTP Service Frameworks - Provides a framework for building HTTP servers and clients with routing, middleware, and static file serving.
• Message Queuing Protocols - Provides full protocol support for creating MQTT-compliant clients and servers.
• Network Clients - Provides a set of network clients for maintaining persistent connections across TCP, UDP, SSL, HTTP, WebSocket, and MQTT.
• Network Protocols - Implements various network protocols to handle raw TCP and UDP traffic for clients and servers.
• Multi-Threaded Event Distribution - Distributes network connections across a pool of event loops running in background threads for multi-core utilization.
• Event-Driven UDP Clients - Implements UDP clients that send and receive datagrams using a high-performance event-driven loop.
• Packet Unpacking Strategies - Provides protocol-agnostic packet unpacking to consume data via single lines, byte counts, or delimited packages.
• Secure Communication Protocols - Provides implementations of SSL/TLS encryption and HTTP protocols for secure data transmission.
• Non-Blocking Socket I/O - Implements non-blocking socket I/O to prevent execution stalls during network communication.
• Secure Socket Wrappers - Provides wrappers that integrate security layers around standard network sockets for encrypted communication.
• TCP and Unix Socket Listeners - Creates TCP listeners that accept incoming network connections and trigger callbacks for data reception.
• TCP Stream Handlers - Handles incoming TCP messages from clients and enables broadcasting data to connected peers.
• UDP Transport Implementations - Provides a reliable transport layer over UDP with congestion control and acknowledgement to ensure ordered delivery.
• WebSocket Clients - Provides a client implementation for establishing and managing bidirectional WebSocket connections over HTTP.
• WebSocket Services - Provides full implementations of WebSocket clients and servers for real-time bidirectional communication.
• Asynchronous Event Loops - Features a non-blocking event loop for managing network sockets, timers, and system signals.
• Event Loops - Uses a multi-threaded event loop architecture to handle concurrent network connections asynchronously.
• Network Encryption - Secures data transmission using SSL/TLS to provide encrypted communication channels.
• Secure Network Communication - Encrypts network data transmissions using secure socket layers for private communication.
• SSL/TLS Connection Security - Wraps network sockets in SSL/TLS using certificates and keys to encrypt communication.
• Transport Layer Encryption - Secures network data transmission by wrapping sockets in SSL/TLS layers using certificates.
• Asynchronous Network Programming - Provides a framework for building high-performance servers and clients that handle concurrent connections via event loops.
• HTTP Request Clients - Implements an HTTP client to execute standard methods for interacting with web resources.
• HTTP Servers - Provides a high-performance HTTP server engine with built-in routing, multi-threading, and SSL/TLS support.
• Real-Time Communication - Enables persistent, bidirectional data streaming between clients and servers using WebSockets.
• HTTP Routing - Provides a routing system for directing incoming HTTP traffic to specific handlers based on URL patterns.
• Pattern-Based Route Mapping - Maps incoming HTTP request URLs to handlers using dynamic path parameters and middleware chains.
• Network Load Balancing Strategies - Allows configuration of processing threads and load balancing strategies for network connections.
• Length-Delimited Message Framing - Uses length-delimited message framing to parse incoming byte streams into distinct network messages.
• Protocol Packet Parsers - Provides components to decompose raw binary network streams into protocol-specific packets using various framing modes.
• Message Framing Modes - Reconstructs application messages from raw byte streams using fixed-length, delimiter-based, or length-field parsing.
• Background Task Schedulers - Includes background task schedulers for managing recurring operations and periodic jobs.
• Interval-Based Task Execution - Provides mechanisms for triggering operations at fixed time intervals using background timers.
• Task Scheduling - Implements task scheduling to trigger callback functions after specified time delays.
• Process Scaling - Distributes connection handling across multiple independent worker processes to maximize CPU utilization.
• Connection Reconnection Policies - Includes a configurable retry delay strategy to automatically restore lost network connections.
• Connection Establishment Protocols - Implements the mechanisms required to initiate and upgrade network connections across various transport protocols.
• TCP Socket Clients - Provides the capability to establish TCP connections to remote hosts for raw data stream exchange.
• System Polling Optimizations - Uses system-specific polling mechanisms to handle high-volume concurrent connections with minimal overhead.
• Websocket Connection Managers - Implements a manager for persistent WebSocket connections with heartbeat monitoring and automatic reconnection logic.
• HTTP Clients - Provides an event-driven HTTP client for sending requests and parsing responses efficiently.
• HTTP Proxies - Implements an HTTP proxy server that forwards requests by parsing headers, bodies, and request lines.
• HTTP Request Utilities - Provides utilities for manipulating HTTP request methods, headers, and payloads for various data formats.
• Traffic Routing Proxies - Implements traffic routing proxies to direct network requests through intermediary servers.
• Connection and Session Management - Provides systems to track and regulate the lifecycle of active network connections and session-specific data.
• Connection Stability Features - Builds bidirectional data channels with integrated support for heartbeats and automatic reconnection.
• Networking Proxies - Provides a library to implement SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies for routing and intercepting network traffic.
• Congestion Controllers - Implements congestion control algorithms to optimize transmission rates and ensure reliable UDP delivery.
• gRPC Implementations - Supports high-performance structured remote procedure calls using gRPC over HTTP/2.
• Protocol Abstraction Layers - Implements a layered architecture that supports high-level protocols like HTTP and MQTT on common transport layers.
• SOCKS5 Servers - Implements a SOCKS5 proxy server that handles authentication and address resolution for traffic routing.
• Real-Time Messaging - Supports persistent bidirectional connections and broker-based messaging for real-time data exchange.
• UDP Socket Managers - Provides a datagram listener for handling connectionless packets with asynchronous socket management.
• SOCKS5 Proxies - Provides a proxy implementation that supports both SOCKS5 and HTTP for routing and intercepting network traffic.
• Stream Parsing Utilities - Offers protocol-agnostic packet unpacking to reconstruct application messages from raw byte streams.
• Connection State Management - Tracks connection and disconnection events to provide easy access to peer addresses and session state.
• Secure Connection Initialization - Allows establishing TCP connections with optional SSL/TLS encryption and configurable timeouts.
• TCP Proxies - Provides a TCP proxy for intercepting and forwarding raw traffic streams to backend hosts.
• Traffic Proxying - Provides utilities for intercepting and routing network traffic between systems via proxy servers.
• Multi-Threaded Load Balancing - Balances incoming connections across multiple worker threads by assigning sockets to different event loops.
• UDP Endpoint Implementations - Implements network endpoints for connectionless data transfer using standard or reliable UDP.
• UDP Proxies - Provides the capability to intercept and forward UDP traffic to backend destinations.
• Unix Domain Socket Support - Provides support for local inter-process communication using Unix domain sockets.
• System Signal Handling - Implements OS-level signal handling to manage graceful shutdowns and process interrupts.
• Object-Oriented Event Loop Wrappers - Encapsulates low-level event loop interfaces into C++ classes to simplify asynchronous development.
• Dispatch Queues - Provides dispatch queues to safely schedule functions for execution within the event loop across threads.
• Request Middleware - Features a middleware system for intercepting and processing HTTP requests before they reach the final handler.
• Static Asset Serving - Implements a web server capability for delivering static files and assets from local directories.
• Asynchronous Event Loop - Cross-platform library for event loop management.
• Build Systems - A versatile network library for TCP, UDP, and HTTP services.
• Network Communication Libraries - Simplified cross-platform network library for TCP, UDP, and WebSockets.
• Network Frameworks - Easy-to-use network library for TCP, UDP, and WebSocket services.
• Windows Environments - Listed in the “Windows Environments” section of the Awesome C awesome list.

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