This is awesome! Thanks for the contribution! Unfortunately it seems that this patch breaks the tests. Could you look into that? It would also be great to have unit tests for this new functionality. I was looking into changing over the tests to use http://httpbin.org anyways, so you can totally use that as a source for integration data.

Hi. I will try to fix this and give you some unit tests.

Hi,
I think that the test is not passing is not a problem with the new code. I downloaded the 'old' code and tested it with a minimal example:
RestClient::response r;
r = RestClient::get("http://http-test-server.heroku.com");
cout << r.code << endl;
I still get Code 301.

After that i tested it in my terminal:
[chris@Poro ~]$ curl -I http://http-test-server.heroku.com
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Connection: keep-alive
Server: Cowboy
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:30:02 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Location: http://http-test-server.herokuapp.com/

Still Code 301.

//The master branch test is still failing too.

Best regards

@chfo sorry for the super long delay on this. I just fixed the tests in master, would you mind merging it in so we can have a proper build status here? Unfortunately I haven't yet added a way to easily parse the resulting JSON but have opened #23 for this

the current unit test suite in master now also supports JSON parsing (#25)

@chfo do you have time to make those adaptions so this can be merged?

This won't apply to master anymore. I'd still be interested in this functionality if you have the time to base it off the current design. Closing this in the meantime.