HTTPS Client Documentation

HTTPS Client v1.0.0 library.

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The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems.

— Official description of HTTP from RFC 7231

This HTTP library implements a subset of the HTTP/1.1 standard for compatibility with the AWS IoT HTTP Server and the AWS S3 HTTP Server. It is also compatible with other HTTP servers. Feature of this library include:

• Both fully asynchronous and synchronous (blocking) API functions.
• Application managed memory for internal context and HTTP formatted headers.
• Thread-aware and parallelized connections.

Dependencies

Dependencies of the HTTPS Client library.

HTTPS Client direct dependencies

Currently, the HTTPS Client library has the following dependencies:

• The queue library for maintaining of list of pending requests and responses on the connection.
• The logging library may be used if IOT_LOG_LEVEL_HTTPS is not IOT_LOG_NONE.
• The platform layer provides an interface to the operating system for thread management, clock functions, networking, etc.

In addition to the components above, the HTTPS Client library also depends on C standard library headers.