Generally I've kept a headers() collection and a body() collection.
Words are cheap. Please provide a serializer which compiles and runs, with tests, and operates on Beast messages and does not use
. I've provided something that works, time for you to do the same.
That's not how Boost reviews work Vinnie. We each provide observations, comments, questions and proposals of alternatives. We discuss. We may each provide formal reviews. The review manager considers all of the discussion, and provides a judgement. So I don't need to convince *you* of anything. I need to convince everybody else on boost-dev, and thence Michael. It's a bonus to convince you too, but it's not a requirement. I think there is a great library lurking in Beast, and you've done a great job bringing us a HTTP library for C++ that is far better than any I've seen yet. But I think some more chiselling is yet needed to hew it out. In particular, I think it's not consistently low level enough yet, and I think a View + Ranges API design for the bottom layer makes a lot more sense, with additional higher level ASIO-dependent layers laid on top. If they others disagree with this opinion, they'll (usually silently) ignore it. If they don't understand it, they'll ask for clarification. If they agree, they'll formally vote the same way or similarly. That's how reviews work. (It's also very possible that another reviewer blows a big hole in my alternative design as having a showstopper design fault, and I thus change *my* opinion. You might consider taking this dialectical approach of proving why my ideas can't work rather than challenging people to write alternative implementations. If I had the spare time to do that, I'd have written a HTTP library a long time ago and brought it here for review. So would many others on here who have far more experience in HTTP than either you or I, and if properly resourced, could have made the definitive implementation bar none) Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/