[Interest] HTTPS with Qt

Gian Maxera gmaxera at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 15:55:32 CEST 2016


In the Qt app you just need to change http to https
No more.

> On 6 Oct 2016, at 14:51, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a Qt app that sends requests to a server like this:
> 
>  QString urlStr = "http://foo.bar.com/baz";
>  QUrl transferUrl(urlStr);
>  QNetworkRequest request(transferUrl);
>  networkReply = networkManager.get(request);
> 
> We need to change this to use HTTPS. We have the needed certs on the
> server. Can someone please point me at some docs that will help me get
> the Qt app modified to work with HTTPS. From what I've been able to
> find I need to install a root certificate, but I don't know what that
> means or how to do it. Also, what changes do I have to make in the Qt
> code? Is it simply changing http to https? From a browser that is all
> I had to do, presumedly because the browser already had the root
> certificate. Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
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