qicosmos/cinatra

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2176 stars · 392 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Cinatra is a cross-platform, header-only, high-performance HTTP framework written in modern C++20, supporting HTTP 1.0/1.1, SSL, and WebSocket. It provides both a coroutine-based HTTP server and an HTTP(S) client with features like file upload/download, redirects, and proxy support.

Use cases

• build a high-performance http server in c++
• create a file upload and download server
• make http requests from c++ with a coroutine-based client
• build a websocket or real-time message push server
• develop a rest api backend in modern c++
• build an https server with ssl support

When to choose

• you need a header-only, dependency-light C++ HTTP framework
• you want C++20 coroutine-based async networking without callbacks
• you need top-tier HTTP server performance in C++
• you need cross-platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows)

When to avoid

• your toolchain does not support C++20 coroutines
• you need a full-featured web framework with templating, ORM, and middleware ecosystems
• you prefer a non-header-only library with separate binaries

Facets

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web-framework http-server http-client websocket file-upload routing web-development backend apis developer-tools windows cpp cross-platform header-only cpp20 coroutines high-performance ssl http-framework linux macos

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