Almost the same question as this one here:
What's the easiest way to grab a web page in C?
however the conditions have changed and I need to connect via https, this is a bit more tricky, anyone got any snippets?
I am on a qnx platform, building and compiling additional libraries and rolling it out onto our product is very, very hard given the contraints. So things like libcurl are not possible.
Results:
It turns out I had to install libcurl on QNX after all. This involved installing perl and openSSL to build libcurl, but once that was built it was good to go. This was the least desirable option but it ended up being worth it.
libcurl should be able to handle anything you need to do.