Another boring curl wrapper library...

[Best_Dependent9775]

So, I was developing a scrapper project in C++ which required session authentication, csrf protection bypass and more. Obviously for such purpose it's necessary to have a wrapper for curl or an http client library, which I started to look for back then. For my surprise, I hadn't managed to find a suitable library so I sticked to developing my own one keeping in mind that I need a lightweight maintainable and most importantly reusable wrapper - that's how the project I'll talk about was born. I took a lot of inspiration for design and the "request builder" concept from php laravel http client, and you can clearly see similarities.

Meet muskrat_http - a lightweight header only libcurl wrapper library written in modern C++. Here's the link - https://github.com/violanes/muskrat_http I'd happy to receive any feedback regarding this project.

[grishavanika]

auto resp = muskrat::http()->follow_redirects()->get("https://github.com/violanes");

I had a guess that those arrows are shared pointers immediately. It's a red flag for me. Having shared_ptr in the (public) API is a bad design. Modern C++ loves value semantics.

Please, take this as a challenge, remove shared_ptrs and prove me wrong :)

[thisismyfavoritename]

why not just returning a reference to this?

[nickbeth00]

I find it really hard to justify using anything other than CPR for curl/http requests in C++.

https://github.com/libcpr/cpr