There's some great programming and design discussion related to Beast and HTTP going on in the GitHub issues for the project. And there are some interface changes looming. Stakeholders and interested parties should consider participating in these discussions if they would like to influence the outcome: Some of the discussions: HTTP 1 versus 2 namespacing https://github.com/vinniefalco/Beast/issues/121 HTTP/2 design https://github.com/vinniefalco/Beast/issues/122 Expect: 100-continue https://github.com/vinniefalco/Beast/issues/123 `basic_headers` to make better use of allocators and string_ref https://github.com/vinniefalco/Beast/issues/124