EHLIB: Embedded http(s) library

A tiny, C++ network socket wrapper (based on Mongoose and Mbed-TLS) for http(s) requests especially for embedded devices. Inspired by the excellent CPR library, WNetWrap, it has mostly identical function names, and will likewise work with random parameter order.

Features

Implemented	Upcoming
Custom headers	Cookie support
Url encoded parameters	Self-signed Root CA support, All well-known Root CA support
Multipart upload	Change default dns server
File upload	Add auth proxy
Custom request methods
Basic authentication
Bearer authentication
Request timeout
Non-Auth Proxy support

That is a basic GET request - for detailed examples see the documentation below.

#include <iostream>
#include "ehlib.h"
    //Tested on Postman Echo
	//GET Request
	ehlib::Response r = ehlib::request(
        ehlib::RequestUrl{"https://postman-echo.com/get"},
        ehlib::UrlRequestParams{
            {"foo1", "bar1"},
            {"foo2", "bar2"}
        },
        ehlib::RequestMethod{"GET"},
        ehlib::RequestUserAgent{"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}
    );

	std::cout << r.raw << std::endl; // basic parser
	std::cout << r.status_code << std::endl; // 200

Usage (tested on Linux & Windows)

Just copy folders include, lib into your project.
Add static libs and include ehlib.h into your build.
That's it!

Documentation

For now it's all here on the readme, but it will eventually be put on a different page to make navigation more user friendly.

To navigate through it use the table of contents dropdown menu.

GET requests

Making a GET request with Ehlib is simple - the GET method is used by default so doesn't need to be specified:

#include "ehlib.h"
  ehlib::Response r = ehlib::request(
        ehlib::RequestUrl{"https://postman-echo.com/get"},
        ehlib::RequestUserAgent{"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}
);

This gives us a Response object which we’ve called r.

There’s a lot of useful stuff in there:

  std::cout << r.url << std::endl; // https://postman-echo.com/get

  std::cout << r.status_code <<   std::endl; // 200

  std::cout << r.header["Content-type"] << std::endl; // application/json; charset=utf-8

  std::cout << r.raw << std::endl;

/*
  {
    "args": {},
    "headers": {
      "x-forwarded-proto": "https",
      "x-forwarded-port": "443",
      "host": "postman-echo.com",
      "x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-64d67257-24fc86582562e80206287bbe",
      "content-length": "0",
      "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
    },
    "url": "https://postman-echo.com/get"
  }
*/

To add URL-encoded parameters, add a UrlRequestParams object to the request call:

  auto r = ehlib::request(
        ehlib::RequestUrl{"https://postman-echo.com/get"},
        ehlib::UrlRequestParams{
            {"foo1", "bar1"},
            {"foo2", "bar2"}
        },
        ehlib::RequestUserAgent{"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}
  );

  std::cout << r.url << std::endl; // https://postman-echo.com/get?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2
  std::cout << r.raw << std::endl;

/*
  {
    "args": {
      "foo1": "bar1",
      "foo2": "bar2"
    },
    "headers": {
      "x-forwarded-proto": "https",
      "x-forwarded-port": "443",
      "host": "postman-echo.com",
      "x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-64d674e0-26f038a10e869e521dcdbfdc",
      "content-length": "0",
      "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
    },
    "url": "https://postman-echo.com/get?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2"
  }
*/

UrlRequestParams is an object with a map-like interface.

You can construct it using a list of key/value pairs inside the request or have it outlive request by constructing it outside:

// Constructing it in a place
  auto r = ehlib::request(
      ehlib::RequestUrl{"http://www.httpbin.org/get"},
      ehlib::UrlRequestParams{
        {"foo1", "bar1"},
        {"foo2", "bar2"}
      },
      ehlib::RequestUserAgent{"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}
  );

  std::cout << r.url << std::endl; // https://postman-echo.com/get?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2

  std::cout << r.raw << std::endl;

/*
  {
    "args": {
      "foo1": "bar1",
      "foo2": "bar2"
    },
    "headers": {
      "x-forwarded-proto": "https",
      "x-forwarded-port": "443",
      "host": "postman-echo.com",
      "x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-64d67627-0f91d09203e69af636c8fcfb",
      "content-length": "0",
      "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
    },
    "url": "https://postman-echo.com/get?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2"
  }
*/

 // Constructing it an outside
  auto parameters = ehlib::UrlRequestParams{
    {"foo1", "bar1"},
    {"foo2", "bar2"}
  };

  auto r_outside = ehlib::request(
    ehlib::RequestUrl{"https://postman-echo.com/get"},
    parameters
  );

  std::cout << r_outside.url << std::endl; // https://postman-echo.com/get?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2

  std::cout << r_outside.raw << std::endl; // Same text response as above

Download a file

To download the contents of the request you simply add RequestUrl to request.

File content will return into Response's raw field.

For example, to download the CPR library:

  auto r = ehlib::request(
      ehlib::RequestUrl{ "https://github.com/whoshuu/cpr/archive/refs/tags/1.10.4.zip" },
      ehlib::RequestUserAgent{"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}
  );

  std::cout << r.raw << std::endl; // print donwloaded file's content (our 1.10.4.zip archive bytes)

POST Requests

Making a POST request must use RequestMethod:

  auto r = ehlib::request(
        ehlib::RequestUrl{"https://postman-echo.com/post"},
        ehlib::RequestMethod{"POST"}
  );

  std::cout << r.text << std::endl;

/*
  {
    "args": {},
    "data": {},
    "files": {},
    "form": {},
    "headers": {
      "x-forwarded-proto": "https",
      "x-forwarded-port": "443",
      "host": "postman-echo.com",
      "x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-64d688e8-1a56cc76092b9abd7de205d9",
      "content-length": "0",
      "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
    },
    "json": null,
    "url": "https://postman-echo.com/post"
  }
*/

This sends some data "This is raw POST data" with use PostRequestBody:

  auto r = ehlib::request(
        ehlib::RequestUrl{"https://postman-echo.com/post"},
        ehlib::PostRequestBody{"This is raw POST data"},
        ehlib::RequestMethod{"POST"}
  );

  std::cout << r.text << std::endl;

/*
  {
    "args": {},
    "data": "This is raw POST data",
    "files": {},
    "form": {},
    "headers": {
      "x-forwarded-proto": "https",
      "x-forwarded-port": "443",
      "host": "postman-echo.com",
      "x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-64d689c1-3a281bae0158913d6a4f240a",
      "content-length": "21",
      "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
      "content-type": "application/json"
    },
    "json": null,
    "url": "https://postman-echo.com/post"
  }
*/

If the data package is large or contains a file, it’s more appropriate to use a RequestMultipartUpload upload.

In this example we are uploading a text files to https://postman-echo.com/post:

  auto r = ehlib::request(
        ehlib::RequestUrl{"https://postman-echo.com/post"},
        ehlib::RequestMultipartUpload{
            {"file_path:1.txt", "1.txt"},
            {"file_path:C:/Windows/win.ini", "win.ini"},
            {"some raw data", "2.txt"}
        },
		ehlib::RequestMethod{"POST"}
  );

  std::cout << r.text << std::endl;

/*
  {
    "args": {},
    "data": {},
    "files": {
      "1.txt": "data:application/octet-stream;base64,aGVsbG8gd29ybGQh",
      "win.ini": "data:application/octet-stream;base64,OyBmb3IgMTYtYml0IGFwcCBzdXBwb3J0DQpbZm9udHNdDQpbZXh0ZW5zaW9uc10NClttY2kgZXh0ZW5zaW9uc10NCltmaWxlc10NCltNYWlsXQ0KTUFQST0xDQo="
    },
    "form": {
      "some raw data": "2.txt"
    },
    "headers": {
      "x-forwarded-proto": "https",
      "x-forwarded-port": "443",
      "host": "postman-echo.com",
      "x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-64d68e5f-0e0b852e32702ddc7806ff31",
      "content-length": "513",
      "content-type": "multipart/form-data; boundary=1816741701207515830740325151",
      "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
    },
    "json": null,
    "url": "https://postman-echo.com/post"
  }
*/

Notice file_path: prefix - this tells that is file on disk and not a key - value pair as form {"some raw data", "2.txt"}.

Authentication

To use Basic Authentication which uses a username and password, just add BasicAuth to the call:

  auto r = ehlib::request(
        ehlib::RequestUrl{"https://postman-echo.com/basic-auth"},
        ehlib::BasicAuth {"postman", "password"},
		ehlib::RequestMethod{"GET"}
    );

  std::cout << r.text << std::endl;

/*
  {
    "authenticated": true
  }
*/

Authentication via an OAuth - Bearer Token can be done using the BearerAuth authentication object:

  auto r = ehlib::request(
        ehlib::RequestUrl{"http://www.httpbin.org/bearer"},
        ehlib::BearerAuth {"ACCESS_TOKEN"},
        ehlib::RequestMethod{"GET"}
  );
std::cout << r.text << std::endl;

/*
  {
    "authenticated": true,
    "token": "ACCESS_TOKEN"
  }
*/

Response Objects

A Response has these public fields and methods:

std::string status_code;        // The HTTP(S) status code for the request
std::string raw;                // The data of the HTTP response
std::map header;                // A map of the header fields received
std::map sent_headers;          // A map of the headers sent
std::string url;                // The effective URL of the ultimate request
std::string err;                // An error string containing the error code and a message
unsigned long uploaded_bytes;   // How many bytes have been sent to the server
unsigned long downloaded_bytes; // How many bytes have been received from the server
unsigned long redirect_count;   // How many redirects occurred
void reset(); // Reset Response object to default state

Request Headers

Using RequestHeaders in your request you can specify custom headers:

  auto r = ehlib::request(
        ehlib::RequestUrl{"https://postman-echo.com/get"},
        ehlib::RequestHeaders{
            {"accept", "application/json"},
            {"master", "slave"}
        },
        ehlib::RequestMethod{"GET"},
        ehlib::RequestUserAgent{"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}
  );

  std::cout << r.text << std::endl;

/*
  {
    "args": {},
    "headers": {
      "x-forwarded-proto": "https",
      "x-forwarded-port": "443",
      "host": "postman-echo.com",
      "x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-64d6950a-387220f76b21c06865853326",
      "content-length": "0",
      "accept": "application/json",
      "master": "slave",
      "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
    },
    "url": "https://postman-echo.com/get"
  }
*/

Timeouts

It’s possible to set a timeout for your request if you have strict timing requirements:

	auto r = ehlib::request(
        ehlib::RequestUrl{"https://postman-echo.com/get"},
        ehlib::RequestTimeout{ 10 },
        ehlib::RequestMethod{"GET"},
        ehlib::RequestUserAgent{"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}
    );

  std::cout << r.text << std::endl; // Connection timeout

Setting the RequestTimeout option sets the maximum allowed time the connection or request operation can take in milliseconds. By default a RequestTimeout set in 5000 milliseconds

Using Proxies

Setting up a proxy is easy. For example, we have tor http proxy on localhost port 9080. Try to connect to https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion/. This is official duckduckgo.com .onion mirror. To do this we will use RequestProxy.

  auto r = ehlib::request(
        ehlib::RequestUrl{"https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion/"},
        ehlib::RequestTimeout{ 100000 },
        ehlib::RequestProxy{ "http://127.0.0.1:9080"},
        ehlib::RequestMethod{"GET"},
        ehlib::RequestUserAgent{"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}
  );

  std::cout << r.raw << std::endl; 
  
  /*
  <!DOCTYPE html>\n<!--[if IEMobile 7 ]> <html lang=\"en-US\" class=\"no-js iem7\"> <![endif]-->\n<!--[if lt IE 7]> <html class=\"ie6 lt-ie10 lt-ie9 lt-ie8 lt-ie7 no-js\" lang=\"en-US\"> <![endif]-->\n<!--[if IE 7]>    <html class=\"ie7 lt-ie10 lt-ie9 lt-ie8 no-js\" lang=\"en-US\"> <![endif]-->\n<!--[if IE 8]>    <html class=\"ie8 lt-ie10 lt-ie9 no-js\" lang=\"en-US\"> <![endif]-->\n<!--[if IE 9]>    <html class=\"ie9 lt-ie10 no-js\" lang=\"en-US\"> <![endif]-->\n<!--[if (gte IE 9)|(gt IEMobile 7)|!(IEMobile)|!(IE)]><!--><html class=\"no-js\" lang=\"en-US\" data-ntp-features=\"tracker-stats-widget:off\"><!--<![endif]-->\n\n<head>\n\t<meta http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" content=\"IE=Edge\" />\n<meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8;charset=utf-8\">\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=1\" />\n<meta name=\"HandheldFriendly\" content=\"true\"/>\n<meta name=\"darkreader-lock\" />\n\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion\">\n\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" ...</html>\n
*/

Additional Options

Allowed options	Upcoming
auto-redirect (on/off)	?

The RequestOptions constructor allows you to specify additional options for the request. For example, turn off auto-redirects (default: auto-redirect turn on). To enable the option you can use on.

	auto r = ehlib::request(
        ehlib::RequestUrl{"http://ya.ru"},
        ehlib::RequestOptions { 
            {"auto-redirect", "off"}
        },
        ehlib::RequestUserAgent{"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}
  );

  std::cout << r.status_code << std::endl; // 301

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