tntnet vs Proxygen

tntnet

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

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tntnet		Proxygen
	Project
-	Mentions	7
73	Stars	8,012
-	Growth	0.3%
5.4	Activity	9.2
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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

What are some alternatives?

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

Simple-WebSocket-Server

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.

WebSocket++ - C++ websocket client/server library

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

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

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.

libquic - QUIC, a multiplexed stream transport over UDP

nghttp2 - nghttp2 - HTTP/2 C Library and tools

RakNet - RakNet is a cross platform, open source, C++ networking engine for game programmers.

Mongoose - Embedded Web Server