experiment/use-simplehttp-instead-of-minreq-http

[sosaucily]

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[apoelstra]

I believe this should work fine on Linux, assuming your node doesn't time out too much, and assuming you're using Bitcoin Core as your HTTP server.

But had a series of mystery bugs, most prevalent on MacOS, and also many people who wanted HTTPS support (which simple_http does not and never will have), which is why we switched to minreq.

[sosaucily]

Thanks for your comment @apoelstra

I was going to test this in order to attempt a solution to this issue: #357

Which also is a blocker for one of our customers, as they are trying to use an RPC connection behind cloudflare.