[UFO Chicago] C++ REST SDK

[Brian Sobolak]

On Tue, March 8, 2016 1:50 pm, jay at m5.chicago.il.us wrote:
>
> Fellow Nerds,
>
> I am writing a C++ program that needs to contact the Stripe server
> (https://stripe.com/documents/api#intro).  It is a REST interface.
> The development (and, for the moment, the deployment) platform is
> Centos 6.6 and the program has to be compiled with the -m32 option
> because it links with proprietary 32-bit libraries to which we do
> not have the source.
>
> Stripe provides APIs in Ruby, Python, PHP, and Java -- all interpreted
> languages -- and also documents what it calls its "Curl" API, which
> means, as I understand it, "here are the URLs, you connect to them
> and send and retrieve data using any language you like".  This could
> literally be using the curl program in a shell script, or it could
> be connecting to the URLs from within a program some other way.

If you can use curl, can't you use an http socket?

brian
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