Boost Beast, which is built on ASIO, has support for timeouts[0], as well as HTTP 1.1 and Websockets. The examples in the Beast tree do do some pretty complex s

Boost Beast, which is built on ASIO, has support for timeouts[0], as well as HTTP 1.1 and Websockets. The examples in the Beast tree do do some pretty complex stuff elegantly, like a multi-client chat server[1], so it's possible. There's also nghttp2_asio, built on nghttp2, which supports HTTP/2[2]. Overall I agree though that ASIO is a very complex and very low level, and it's a lot of work to use it well. Sometimes it's easiest just to use libcurl. [0] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_76_0/libs/beast/doc/html/beast/using_io/timeouts.html https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_76_0/libs/beast/doc/html/be... [1] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_70_0/libs/beast/example/websocket/server/chat-multi/ https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_70_0/libs/beast/example/web... [2] http://nghttp2.org/documentation/libnghttp2_asio.html http://nghttp2.org/documentation/libnghttp2_asio.html