// // Copyright (c) 2020 Kasper Laudrup (laudrup at stacktrace dot dk) // // Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying // file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) // #include #include #include #include #include #include #include namespace beast = boost::beast; // from namespace http = beast::http; // from namespace net = boost::asio; // from namespace ssl = boost::wintls; // from using tcp = boost::asio::ip::tcp; // from //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // Performs an HTTP GET and prints the response int main(int argc, char** argv) { try { // Exactly one command line argument required - the HTTPS URL if(argc != 2) { std::cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " [HTTPS_URL]\n\n"; std::cerr << "Example: " << argv[0] << " https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt\n"; return EXIT_FAILURE; } const std::string url{argv[1]}; // Very basic URL matching. Not a full URL validator. std::regex re("https://([^/$:]+):?([^/$]*)(/?.*)"); std::smatch what; if(!regex_match(url, what, re)) { std::cerr << "Invalid or unsupported URL: " << url << "\n"; return EXIT_FAILURE; } // Get the relevant parts of the URL const std::string host = std::string(what[1]); // Use default HTTPS port (443) if not specified const std::string port = what[2].length() > 0 ? what[2].str() : "443"; // Use default path ('/') if not specified const std::string path = what[3].length() > 0 ? what[3].str() : "/"; // Use HTTP/1.1 const int version = 11; // The io_context is required for all I/O net::io_context ioc; // The SSL context is required, and holds certificates ssl::context ctx{boost::wintls::method::system_default}; // Use the operating systems default certificates for verification ctx.use_default_certificates(true); // Verify the remote server's certificate ctx.verify_server_certificate(true); // Construct the TLS stream with the parameters from the context ssl::stream stream(ioc, ctx); // Set SNI hostname (many hosts need this to handshake successfully) stream.set_server_hostname(host); // Enable Check whether the Server Certificate was revoked stream.set_certificate_revocation_check(true); // Look up the domain name tcp::resolver resolver(ioc); auto const results = resolver.resolve(host, port); // Make the connection on the IP address we get from a lookup beast::get_lowest_layer(stream).connect(results); // Perform the TLS handshake stream.handshake(boost::wintls::handshake_type::client); // Set up an HTTP GET request message http::request req{http::verb::get, path, version}; req.set(http::field::host, host); req.set(http::field::user_agent, BOOST_BEAST_VERSION_STRING); // Send the HTTP request to the remote host http::write(stream, req); // This buffer is used for reading and must be persisted beast::flat_buffer buffer; // Declare a container to hold the response http::response res; // Receive the HTTP response http::read(stream, buffer, res); // Write the message to standard out std::cout << res << std::endl; // Shutdown the TLS connection stream.shutdown(); } catch(std::exception const& e) { std::cerr << "Error: " << e.what() << std::endl; return EXIT_FAILURE; } return EXIT_SUCCESS; }