I recommend Crow, it's a web framework that supports HTTP and Websockets. It's a bit larger than being only there to just let you compose or decode a packet. But I'm pretty sure everything you mentioned is there already :). Source: almost 2 years ago

I've been working on Crow for quite a while now, it's a pretty cool framework IMO. Source: almost 2 years ago

If you really want to use C++, check out something like Crow, https://crowcpp.org/ and same thing, you can pass messages between the server and your application. Source: over 2 years ago

Crow is a C++ web framework being developed and maintained by myself and a couple developers. Source: over 2 years ago

Https://crowcpp.org/ (C++ API similar to Python flask). Source: over 2 years ago

Reminds me quite a bit of websocketd as well, which converts a stdin/stdout program to a websocket: http://websocketd.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

I hadn't even considered collecting traces/spans in this way yet, and have taken the approach of "stuff outputting logs in JSON format to stderr/local file". I usually end up writing a (temporary, structured) log message with the relevant span tags, but wouldn't it would be much better to run the actual trace/span code and be able to verify it locally without the ad-hoc log message? The prototype I built is a web... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

I also used to use this (http://websocketd.com/) along with netcat(1) before just biting the bullet and writing my own websocket library for our server as we needed to scale up slightly. Source: over 1 year ago

Http://websocketd.com/ (Runs command line C or C++ programs as websocket programs, similar to inetd / CGI). Source: over 2 years ago