I've got the following class member
boost::beast::websocket::stream<boost::beast::tcp_stream> ws_;
which gets instantiated on class c'tor using boost::asio::io_service as parameter.
I assume that all the websocket protocol is implemented on top of http so i was wondering if it's possible to extract the socket out of ws_ and use it to send regular http POST request ?
I've found an example that actually create the websocket out of simple tcp::socket here, so i guess it's doable, but how exactly ?
One good use-case for this for this approach is to fallback to simple HTTP requests (GET/POST) in case the websocket handshake failed (assuming it's supported by the server)
thanks