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Will you add support for HTTPS?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
networking

Research direction

The issue only asks for HTTPS support in this single-header C++ HTTP request class and names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the networking implementation and its existing request-handling coverage; done means HTTPS requests work reliably and the relevant behavior is tested.

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Description

Just add HTTPS

Dominant language
C++
Stars
971
Forks
200
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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