@wolf480pl
--[What would y'all have done?]--

Same thing I always do. Use the cloud thing as the *fallback* not the primary.

@wolf480pl Does DNS not have a "try this IP first, then this one if the first one is down" feature?

@loke @clacke @mdhughes @urusan I think black coffee is supposed to taste somewhat bitter, even with "burnt" overtones etc. Just like tea without milk or sugar is pretty bitter (or at least not sweet at all).

@bagder Suppose I just want to fetch a webpage as a string over HTTPS, though. Should I be using something lighter-weight than libcurl?

@bagder I want a C library that provides a function

char *getwebpage(char *url);

where url is "https://domain,etc" and the returned string is the content of the page.

I guess there must be some other libraries that provide this.

@loke @bagder It works well - I just didn't realise it was "large". The Windows DLL is 4MB, which is fine in the modern world I guess.

@bagder Should "getting a webpage as a string" really require 110k lines of code? I like cURL because it simplifies my code but this seems odd.

@bagder Maybe that's all I want to do. I don't want to include an entire web browser in my program. But the interface to OpenSSL at the low-level for HTTPS seemed to complicated as well.

@binarycat Here's a 70MB Javascript file that applies a "minimial" look and feel to your app!