DikuMUD | Original Alfa release | Game Engine library

I'm need help with websocketspp / websockets++ please (https://github.com/zaphoyd/websocketpp).

I'm open to other simpler libraries, also C, if that's an overall better option :)

My overall goal is to have a websockets webpage as a replacement for a telnet client for DikuMUD.

I've been using the "echo_server" example which is running fine.

I'm trying to save the connection handler "hdl" from one callback and then re-use it later to send another message back to the client. Looks to me like hdl is a class that will get created / destroyed on the stack with each function call to e.g. on_message.

I would like to store the hdl somehow, e.g. in a std::map so that I can look it up and use that looked up hdl to send another message later to the same client.

Here's the example. Sorry for the void , I'm used to C and lightweight C++ :)