[PRE REVIEW]: Simple-Web-Server: a fast and flexible HTTP/1.1 C++ client and server library

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Submitting author: @eidheim (Ole Christian Eidheim)
Repository: https://gitlab.com/eidheim/Simple-Web-Server
Version: v3.0
Editor: @gkthiruvathukal
Reviewers: @ts-adi

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[danielskatz]

@gkthiruvathukal - would you be willing to edit this submission?

[gkthiruvathukal]

@danielskatz Yes, I will edit this one.

[danielskatz]

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[danielskatz]

@gkthiruvathukal - in case you didn't know, you can do this (assign yourself as editor) too...

[gkthiruvathukal]

Thanks for letting me know! I will do that next time, @danielskatz.

[gkthiruvathukal]

@danielskatz Any idea why this submission did not move to review state after you assigned me? On my dashboard, it shows as review_pending.

Disregard: I need to take it from here! :) Sorry.

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[gkthiruvathukal]

@eidheim if you have any suggestions for potential reviewers then please mention them here in this thread. In addition, this list of people have already agreed to review for JOSS and may be suitable for this submission. Thanks!

[gkthiruvathukal]

@eidhelm Can you also comment on two things:

• Why is Simple-Web-Server research software and/or how does it aid in developing research software?
• Does this provide support for HTTPS?

The first question is important from a JOSS standpoint.
The second is important in general and is not mentioned anywhere in the paper. If HTTPS is not supported, this can present a great deal of frustration to users.

[eidheim]

@gkthiruvathukal First of all, thank you for accepting to be editor for this submission.

@eidheim if you have any suggestions for potential reviewers then please mention them here in this thread. In addition, this list of people have already agreed to review for JOSS and may be suitable for this submission. Thanks!

I see there are several potential reviewers with C++ as one of their preferred programming languages. The ones that stood out to me as having relevant background was: gradvohl, aaronyd, hainesr, jaynanavati, nmullins, HaoZeke, Danbo3004, gcdeshpande and adi3.

Why is Simple-Web-Server research software and/or how does it aid in developing research software?

Simple-Web-Server can be helpful for any research software written in C++ that needs to communicate with remote endpoints through HTTP or HTTPS. It is a general purpose library that might aid software development in several research fields. An example another paper accepted by JOSS describing a general purpose library can be found here: https://github.com/openjournals/joss-papers/blob/ceab2f713f640fcb4602a05206fbdbb8d04261a0/joss.01109/10.21105.joss.01109.pdf

Does this provide support for HTTPS?

Yes, Simple-Web-Server supports HTTPS. This is mentioned in the first paragraph of the summery in the paper: "Simple-Web-Server is a library that can be utilized in C++ applications to
implement web-resources or perform HTTP(S) requests in a simple manner across OS
platforms compared to using a networking library directly.". "HTTP(S)" could however be changed to "HTTP or HTTPS".

[gkthiruvathukal]

@eidheim Thanks for your responses. This is all I needed to proceed with assigning reviewers. I would like see a clear mention of how this helps research software (the language you provided being just about all we need) and to split HTTP and HTTPS. I even failed to notice the regex-like syntax at first.

[gkthiruvathukal]

@gradvohl, @aaronyd, @hainesr, @jaynanavati, @nmullins, @HaoZeke, @Danbo3004, @gcdeshpande and @adi3: Would you be willing to contribute a review for this JOSS submission? I need two reviewers. I plan to assign on an FCFS basis. I know a couple of you have helped me on recent submissions but would be grateful to have your help again.

[HaoZeke]

@gkthiruvathukal I would be willing but there need to be significant rewrites. As far as I can tell there are no indications as to how this benefits researchers. It seems like a nice project though.. I understand it has been used for courses, but perhaps before being considered for publication here, perhaps enumerating which features or algorithms are implemented might be a start. Also of concern to me is the fact that most of the references are not part of academia (in terms of peer-reviewed journals) at all.

[HaoZeke]

@whedon check references

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Attempting to check references...

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OK DOIs

- None

MISSING DOIs

- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7719-9_6 may be missing for title: Boost C++ Libraries

INVALID DOIs

- None

[gkthiruvathukal]

@HaoZeke If you take a look, I asked @eidheim about how it's research software and will be helpful to it. I believe he gave a satisfactory response and we can iterate with him on this during review. I'm going to assign you as you already have provided some good feedback.

[gkthiruvathukal]

@whedon assign @HaoZeke as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, the reviewer is @HaoZeke

[gkthiruvathukal]

Awaiting one more reviewer!

[HaoZeke]

@gkthiruvathukal, sure, thanks. I am certain that working with @eidheim will definitely make this a valued contribution. Will continue once the review starts.

[ts-adi]

@gkthiruvathukal I can take this on. The library is probably useful and I think @eidheim will just need to elucidate his response more specifically

It is a general purpose library that might aid software development in several research fields.

By the way, the code itself should have comments and documentation beyond a readme. This is especially important for a library where a doxygen-built API would help users. Not sure if that is part of the review process though.

[HaoZeke]

@ts-adi it will be.

[gkthiruvathukal]

@ts-adi I'm grateful that you are willing to be a reviewer. Let me assign you and get the ball rolling. All of these comments will be helpful for the actual review.

[gkthiruvathukal]

@whedon assign @ts-adi as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, the reviewer is @ts-adi

[gkthiruvathukal]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in #1592. Feel free to close this issue now!

[gcdeshpande]

Happy to take up.. if still available Thanks and Regards Gajendra C. Deshpande Assistant Professor, CSE@KLS.GIT Belgaum - 590008 Karnataka, INDIA Blog: http://gajendramoksha.wordpress.com Website: http://sites.google.com/a/git.edu/gcd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcdeshpande [http://csta.acm.org/Membership/sub/badge.jpg]

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[gkthiruvathukal]

@gcdeshpande I will keep you in mind for another submission. Thanks for responding!