Make external (non-IC) HTTP request from backend canister?

[cryptoschindler]

hey @shan ! welcome to the forum and great first question. maybe this helps for the first part? the whole thread might be of interest for you.

Can we somehow achieve or build a canister with a interface bahaving like a classic web server

The ic-http-lambda is just a side proof of concept of mine, to show what’s possible with an HTTP interface. The fact that I run it on AWS is immaterial, once a feature like that becomes official nobody will remember my little experiment Can I write something to fetch data from outside http APIs and save it to IC, or forward to telegram chat? No, there is no good story for doing HTTP requests from a canister; it is somewhat at odds with replicated deterministic execution. So no…

for the second part maybe @lastmjs can help?