Development of Advanced Bridge Information System’s High- Performance Web Server

Development of Advanced Bridge Information System’s High- Performance Web Server

This study was to develop an efficient bridge information system that could afford timeconsuming computations or simulations on the web. The web server of the system was created by using two C++ libraries coming from the famous Boost: Beast and Asio. The server also implemented the HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) protocol, providing secure communication between the server and users. Besides, the web server offered a Web API (Application Programming Interface) to enable the SPA (Single Page Application) design of the bridge information system. Preliminary tests were carried out to ensure that Beast and Asio sufficed to create a secure Web API and the web server was able to timely respond to user requests for bridge information.