What is the best library to use these days for developing in Visual C++? I had to write some VCpp code a few days ago using the Winhttp api and it was a nightmare. I'm not sure if its because I've been spoiled rotten by python where you can do a get/post request with a few lines of code, and that this is just how CPP is, but most of the complications are to do with calling and using the (not very well) documented API itself. Is there usually a easier way to do this? I'm just doing simple post and get requests, and I couldn't even do a file upload post properly by passing the binary data in, had to convert to base64 text in the end for it to work.