WebSocket++ VS IXWebSocket

Compare WebSocket++ vs IXWebSocket and see what are their differences.

WebSocket++

C++ websocket client/server library (by zaphoyd)

IXWebSocket

websocket and http client and server library, with TLS support and very few dependencies (by machinezone)
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WebSocket++ IXWebSocket
5 4
6,695 487
- 3.7%
0.0 6.6
1 day ago about 19 hours ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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WebSocket++

Posts with mentions or reviews of WebSocket++. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-25.

IXWebSocket

Posts with mentions or reviews of IXWebSocket. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-25.
  • Request for a websocket library
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 25 Mar 2022
  • Linker errors in a new project when including a library
    2 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 27 Mar 2021
    My apologies in advanced - I'm very new to CPP and this is a pretty specific issue, but this GitHub issue explains the problem I'm having. I don't think that matters much though, I found a different issue that supposedly is the fix, except I have no idea how to use it.
    2 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 27 Mar 2021
    When I try building the project using the main example the library provides, it gives me these errors (image). Here is main.cpp from the repo. The developer responded to someone else having the same issue with the code I quoted in my post, but like I said, I have no idea what to do with it. If I can figure out where to put it and get main.cpp working, I can go from there.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WebSocket++ and IXWebSocket you can also consider the following projects:

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

libwebsockets - canonical libwebsockets.org networking library

µWebSockets - Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications

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.

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.

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

cpr - C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests.

arduinoWebSockets - arduinoWebSockets

nghttp2 - nghttp2 - HTTP/2 C Library and tools

Simple-WebSocket-Server