Copyright © 2014 Brian Spanton

Webel

Webel (web elements) is an independent C++ implementation of sockets, TLS, HTTP, HTML, JSON
and more, in a Windows service framework suitable for web crawler, web server, web client,
web browser, load simulation, http proxy, or higher level applications.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

• tls 1.0 and 1.1 implementation based on applicable RFCs
• http implementation based on applicable RFCs
• cookie implementation based on applicable RFCs
• html implementation based on http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ and applicable RFCs
• json implementation based on applicable RFCs
• json extension for extracting json from html
• UTF-8, UTF-32, and legacy single byte (ascii, etc.) encoder/decoder based on http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org
• dynamically loads standard html named character references from http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/entities.json
• dynamically loads suite of legacy single byte encodings from http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/encodings.json
• minimal dependencies: just stl and low level win32 pieces (sockets, crypto, threading, file io)
• 100% async and non-blocking and multi-threaded
• efficient logging subsystem
• modern suffix tree implementation
• modern smart pointer implementation
• good protocol framework for protocol implementation and layering
• cleanly decoupled namespaces for major subsystems
• readable code with verbose but clean naming conventions
• thoughtfully factored and object oriented

Brian Spanton
[email protected]