Question

what is the right way to read chunked data (from http request) from socket?

sf::TcpSocket socket;
socket.connect("0.0.0.0", 80);

std::string message = "GET /address HTTP/1.1\r\n";
socket.send(message.c_str(), message.size() + 1);

// Receive an answer from the server
char buffer[128];
std::size_t received = 0;
socket.receive(buffer, sizeof(buffer), received);
std::cout << "The server said: " << buffer << std::endl;

But server sends infinite data and socket.receive doesn’t return management. Any right ways to read chunked data part by part? (The answer is chunked data).

Answer 1

The right way to process HTTP requests is to use a higher-level library that manages the socket connections for you. In C++ one example would be pion-net; there are others too like Mongoose (which is C, but fine to use in C++).