Make HTTP(S) request from canisters (to reach third party Restful API from back end such as oAuth providers, APIs, etc...)

[paulyoung]

I’m not sure this is live yet.

Enable canisters to make HTTP(S) requests

Progress update We are currently wrapping up the MVP implementation of the feature, only a few small things remain to be done. We plan to launch the feature in July. The MVP will be an IPv6-only launch for the reason of our replicas not having IPv4 addresses. Going via boundary nodes, as initially planned, may be added at a later stage, but the main issue is that all subnets then share the rate limits of services as we only have 10-20 boundary nodes currently. What is missing now are the follo…

Maybe @dieter.sommer can say more.