ESP8266 Community Forum

- Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:54 am #13246 I was wondering if somebody knows a module (ESP8266 supported) that can help me doing HTTPS requests. I want to use the ESP8266 to send requests to Parse.com, but unfortunately Parse only allows HTTPS requests for their API.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Michael.

- Sat Apr 04, 2015 11:38 am #13470 HTTPS is very heavyweight for microcontrollers. Until someone develops support for it, you could use something like https://www.stunnel.org/index.html as a proxy (on a machine you control) to bounce requests to Parse.com.

You would set up a mapping in client mode, and connect to your STunnel box on a certain port and the config file determines how to map the connections.

ESP8266->[HTTP]->PC running STunnel w/proper config->[HTTPS]->Parse.com

Best,
Travis