Downloading files over TLS

[Kagamin]

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 10:12:09 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Downloading files over TLS. This seems that it's something that 
> should be quite simple to do. My high level goals are 
> cross-platform and easy distribution. I don't need anything 
> fancy just a simple API like this:
>
> download("https://url.com", "/local/file");

Maybe just start wget or something like that?

> * Network [6]. This is an Apple specific library provided by 
> the platform. This is the recommend alternative to 
> SecureTransport. The problem is that this is not just an 
> alternative TLS implementation, it's a completely different 
> alternative to BSD sockets. The API is completely different and 
> will require some extra layers to to provide a cross-platform 
> API. This means that I cannot use any of the existing library 
> to just add TLS, it will be a completely different 
> implementation, which might be ok. Another big problem is that 
> it only available on macOS 10.14 and later. I have not decided 
> yet if this is acceptable or not

Since you want the latest certificate storage, you intend to 
support only the latest system. Many root certificates will 
timeout now.

> * Are there any high level APIs, like NSURLSession, on Windows 
> that can be used to download files?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winhttp/about-winhttp