Proxygen vs kleinsHTTP

Proxygen

A collection of C++ HTTP libraries including an easy to use HTTP server. (by facebook)

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kleinsHTTP

kleinsHTTP is a simple modern http server libary. (by kleinschrader)

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Proxygen		kleinsHTTP
	Project
7	Mentions	2
8,020	Stars	12
0.4%	Growth	-
9.2	Activity	0.0
6 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Proxygen

Posts with mentions or reviews of Proxygen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-29.

Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024

Looking forward to the time when Meta will make https://github.com/facebookincubator/zstrong.git public
found it mentioned in https://github.com/facebook/proxygen/blob/main/build/fbcode_..., looks like it's going to be cousin of zstd, but maybe for the stronger compression use cases
Nghttp3 1.0.0 – HTTP/3 library written in C
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Oct 2023
Zap – fast back ends in Zig
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jun 2023
C++ (or C, I guess) application server that's QUIC/HTTP3 ready?
4 projects | /r/cpp | 29 Jun 2022
kleinsHTTP: A stupid stupidly simple HTTP Server
6 projects | /r/cpp | 21 Aug 2021

proxygen claims to support all 3, although I'm still not sure if it's an actual library or just an interface.
cpprestsdk in maintenance mode
17 projects | /r/cpp | 8 Jun 2021

If you need an embedded C++ HTTP server then there are plenty of libraries/frameworks (in random order): Crow, RESTinio, Boost.Beast, cpp-httplib, http_backend, Pistache, RestBed, served, proxygen, Simple-Web-Server, drogon, oat++.
Experiments with h3 clients + Envoy
8 projects | dev.to | 12 Apr 2021

proxygen/hq

kleinsHTTP

Posts with mentions or reviews of kleinsHTTP. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-21.

kleinsHTTP: A stupid stupidly simple HTTP Server
6 projects | /r/cpp | 21 Aug 2021

And also credited you of course.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Proxygen and kleinsHTTP you can also consider the following projects:

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.

Crow - A Fast and Easy to use microframework for the web.

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

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

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.

Simple-WebSocket-Server

nghttp2 - nghttp2 - HTTP/2 C Library and tools

Mongoose - Embedded Web Server

drogon - Drogon: A C++14/17 based HTTP web application framework running on Linux/macOS/Unix/Windows [Moved to: https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon]

libcurl - 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, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

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

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