HTTPS Request Library

[Goose]

Hi All,

My team and I are looking for an HTTPS library to use with our Electron.

We were using an HTTP client library that was buggy and ineffective and are now using webhooks. Due to the request limits (https://docs.particle.io/guide/tools-and-features/webhooks/#limits), we cannot continue with these as our use case scales and would prefer to use an existing HTTPS library or write our own.

Does anyone know of a working and reliable HTTPS request library or have any pointers on where to start if we were to write our own?

[Moors7]

This?

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…

[Goose]

Thanks @Moors7. We actually tried that one and couldn’t get the examples to work but will use as reference. Also, since it uses matrixSSL, if any project using this library MUST be open sourced under the GPL license we won’t be able to use it directly.

[tedder]

@Goose

if any project using this library MUST be open sourced under the GPL license we won't be able to use it directly.

IANAL but I'd confirm that if I were you: GNU General Public License - Wikipedia

Depends on your level of risk, really. The particle compiler is GNU GCC too.

[Goose]

Thanks @tedder!

[sidwarkd]

@Goose

Also, since it uses matrixSSL, if any project using this library MUST be open sourced under the GPL license we won’t be able to use it directly.

I know this is a super old thread but I came across it looking for HTTPS resources. I'm not a lawyer either but from my days of working on open source at Microsoft I can say you almost certainly aren't safe using GPL licensed things in your Particle code unless you want to be infected with the license and have to open source your project. If that doesn't bother you then you're good to go. The link above refers to linking in binaries which isn't really an option in Particle land as almost always you are pulling in the source code and compiling it in as with the glowfish library.