I:

• Moved the HTTP examples to contrib/http_examples
• Added gtest as a submodule under the deps subdirectory
• Replaced the URI code with a new submodule based on the work I've been doing for the last couple of months (breaking changes)
• Configured the project to compile and run on MSVC 2012 and GCC 4.7.2
• Updated any breaking code (limited to the changes in the URI, which turned out to be very little)
• Updated README.rst

The project is still in the same intermediate state (failing tests in the HTTP client, the HTTP server doesn't compile, neither does MIME)

I would suggest the following further changes:

• The logging and mime libraries can be separate submodules
• Add gmock as a submodule
• Implement the HTTP client API according to the design doc