17 projects
Libwebsockets
Libwebsockets is a lightweight, pure C library providing client and server functionality for WebSocket protocol and HTTP(S) serving. It offers a portable, event-driven architecture with minimal dependencies, supporting both WebSocket and traditional web protocols with SSL/TLS security.
Contributors
2,213
Organizations
284
Software value
$15M
POCO
POCO (Portable Components) is a collection of C++ class libraries for building network-centric, portable applications. It provides cross-platform functionality for network programming, threading, file system access, streams, JSON, XML, and other common programming tasks.
Contributors
2,156
Organizations
311
Software value
$34M
ws
A fast, lightweight, and production-ready WebSocket client and server implementation for Node.js
Contributors
2,126
Organizations
731
Software value
$400K
PyZMQ
PyZMQ is a Python binding for ZeroMQ (ØMQ), a distributed messaging and computing library. It enables Python programs to use ZeroMQ sockets for building distributed applications through its high-performance asynchronous messaging capabilities.
Contributors
1,415
Organizations
430
Software value
$762K
websockets
A library for building WebSocket servers and clients in Python with a focus on correctness, simplicity, robustness and performance
Contributors
1,217
Organizations
332
Software value
$1.4M
Gorilla WebSocket
Gorilla WebSocket is a Go package that implements the WebSocket protocol defined in RFC 6455, providing a complete and tested implementation for creating WebSocket clients and servers in Go applications
Contributors
998
Organizations
345
Software value
$194K
Mio
Mio is a low-level I/O library for Rust that provides a cross-platform abstraction over operating system event notification mechanisms like epoll, kqueue, and IOCP. It serves as a foundation for asynchronous I/O operations in Rust applications.
Contributors
973
Organizations
374
Software value
$456K
libfabric
Libfabric is a core component of the OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) framework that provides a user-space API for accessing high-performance fabric services. It enables portable, high-performance and scalable interfaces for network programming, supporting various network providers and protocols for high-performance computing and enterprise applications.
Contributors
920
Organizations
153
Software value
$17M
LIBPCAP 1.x.y
LIBPCAP is a portable C/C++ library for network traffic capture that provides a high-level interface to packet capture systems. It allows applications to capture packets from network interfaces and is widely used in network monitoring, analysis, and security tools.
Contributors
865
Organizations
206
Software value
$2.6M
Twisted
Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python that enables developers to build networked applications. It supports multiple protocols including HTTP, SMTP, IRC, SSH, and more, while providing a high-level asynchronous programming interface.
Contributors
828
Organizations
238
Software value
$11M
RDMA Core
RDMA Core is a userspace library and drivers that enable direct memory access and kernel bypass capabilities for high-performance network communication using Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology. It provides the core user space infrastructure and drivers for RDMA devices on Linux.
Contributors
782
Organizations
119
Software value
$8.1M
Excon
Excon is a fast, simple HTTP(S) 1.1 client library for Ruby with support for synchronous and asynchronous requests, SSL/TLS, streaming, proxies, and Unix domain sockets
Contributors
752
Organizations
291
Software value
$289K
Wangle
Wangle is a C++ networking library built on top of Facebook's folly library that provides a high-performance asynchronous client/server framework. It implements common client/server protocols and offers abstractions for writing custom network services.
Contributors
658
Organizations
68
Software value
$1.1M
Fizz
Fizz is a TLS 1.3 implementation library in C++14 that focuses on performance, security and modern features. It provides a comprehensive implementation of the TLS protocol with support for zero-copy APIs, asynchronous I/O, and modern cryptographic algorithms.
Contributors
429
Organizations
39
Software value
$2.7M
Haskell Network
A Haskell library providing low-level networking support for TCP/IP, UDP, name resolution, and Unix domain sockets
Contributors
420
Organizations
135
Software value
$103K
Socket2
Advanced configuration options for sockets.
Contributors
380
Organizations
157
Software value
$238K
zerocopy
A zero-copy networking library for Linux that enables efficient data transfer between user space and kernel space without redundant memory copying, improving performance in network applications
Contributors
276
Organizations
96
Software value
$5.4M