libcurl

curl is an open source command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP.  curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, HTTP/2, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Plain, Digest, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and more.

当使用C++做HTTP客户端时，目前通用的做法就是使用libcurl。其官方网站的地址是http://curl.haxx.se/，该网站主要提供了Curl和libcurl。Curl是命令行工具，用于完成FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE 以及 LDAP的命令的请求及接收回馈。libcurl提供给开发者，用于使用C++跨平台的开发各种网络协议的请求及响应。里面的文档非常齐全，不过都是英文的。