Question

How can I do an HTTPS request in Haskell?

For example, I want to obtain a request token via HTTPS POST from Dropbox API

P.S.: I am using Windows 8

Answer 1

Thanks to packages like http-conduit, which is backed by tls, you can use simpleHttp for HTTPS.

> import Network.HTTP.Conduit
> simpleHttp "https://github.com"
...  big ugly bytestring that can be parsed in so many ways...