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Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Vinnie Falco (vinnie dot falco at gmail dot com)
Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
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Official repository: https://github.com/boostorg/beast
]
[section Handshaking (Clients)]
A WebSocket session begins when a client sends the HTTP/1
[@https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-6.7 Upgrade]
request for
[@https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455#section-1.3 websocket],
and the server sends an appropriate response indicating that
the request was accepted and that the connection has been upgraded.
The Upgrade request must include the
[@https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-5.4 Host]
field, and the
[@https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-5.3 target]
of the resource to request. The stream member functions
[link beast.ref.boost__beast__websocket__stream.handshake.overload1 `handshake`] and
[link beast.ref.boost__beast__websocket__stream.async_handshake.overload1 `async_handshake`]
are used to send the request with the required host and target strings.
[ws_snippet_8]
The implementation will create and send a request that typically
looks like this:
[table WebSocket Upgrade HTTP Request
[[Serialized Octets][Description]]
[[
```
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Upgrade: websocket
Connection: upgrade
Sec-WebSocket-Key: 2pGeTR0DsE4dfZs2pH+8MA==
Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13
User-Agent: Beast
```
][
The host and target parameters become part of the Host field
and request-target in the resulting HTTP request. The key is
generated by the implementation. Callers may add fields or
modify fields by providing a ['decorator], described below.
]]]
[heading Decorators]
If the caller wishes to add or modify fields, the member functions
[link beast.ref.boost__beast__websocket__stream.handshake_ex `handshake_ex`] and
[link beast.ref.boost__beast__websocket__stream.async_handshake_ex `async_handshake_ex`]
are provided which allow an additional function object, called a
['decorator], to be passed. The decorator is invoked to modify
the HTTP Upgrade request as needed. This example sets a subprotocol
on the request:
[ws_snippet_9]
The HTTP Upgrade request produced by the previous call will look thusly:
[table Decorated WebSocket Upgrade HTTP Request
[[Serialized Octets][Description]]
[[
```
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Upgrade: websocket
Connection: upgrade
Sec-WebSocket-Key: 2pGeTR0DsE4dfZs2pH+8MA==
Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13
Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: xmpp;ws-chat
User-Agent: Beast
```
][
Undefined behavior results if the decorator modifies the fields
specific to perform the WebSocket Upgrade , such as the Upgrade
and Connection fields.
]]]
[heading Filtering]
When a client receives an HTTP Upgrade response from the server indicating
a successful upgrade, the caller may wish to perform additional validation
on the received HTTP response message. For example, to check that the
response to a basic authentication challenge is valid. To achieve this,
overloads of the handshake member function allow the caller to store the
received HTTP message in an output reference argument of type
[link beast.ref.boost__beast__websocket__response_type `response_type`]
as follows:
[ws_snippet_10]
[endsect]