HTTPS and TCP Client issue

[ninjatill]

I believe you have to transition to using a webhook when requesting data from HTTPS URLs. If you search for "HTTPS " you'll find some older threads asking about making HTTPS requests and that it is not possible on the Photon hardware. Hence the need for the webhook. This thread is kind of old but I believe it is still true:

HTTPS Request from Spark Core?

I see! Thanks for the help. I’m trying to use this example to get something off of another website now, and although it connects, it says “Bad Request.” What could that mean? Do you think there is something wrong with my code, or something with the internet connection? my Code: char server[] = “https://coinbase.com”; TCPClient client; void setup() { // Open serial communications and wait for port to open: Serial.begin(9600); while(!Serial.available()) SPARK_WLAN_Loop(); if (client.connec…

Although, it looks like there is a library available if you want to still keep the process local to the Particle device:

HTTPS client is here for the Photon! - by the glowfi.sh Team

Hey Community, We have been working hard at glowfi.sh to deliver an HTTPS client for the Particle community and I am happy to say we are ready to release it thanks to all the work by glowfi.sh engineer @jersey99. Our client is built from matrixSSL, and you can check out our documentation, specs, and examples in our glowfishAPI repo for Particle here. Again, we are super excited to release this and welcome any comments, feedback, pull requests, etc.! Thanks Mike and the glowfi.sh Team Sign u…