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Lee Zhi Eng
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Lee Zhi Eng is a self-taught programmer who worked as an artist and programmer at several game studios before becoming a part-time lecturer for 2 years at a university, teaching game development subjects related to Unity and Unreal Engine. He has not only taken part in various projects related to games, interactive apps, and virtual reality but has also participated in multiple projects that are more oriented toward software and system development. When he is not writing code, he enjoys traveling, photography, and exploring new technologies.
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Accessing HTTP resources using Qt

A common thing to do in today's networked world is use the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to access a remote resource or service on the web. To do this, your application should first use Qt's support to select a bearer network to make the HTTP request. Then, it should use its support for HTTP to make one or more HTTP requests across the network connection that the bearer network service opened.

To begin with, you need to be sure that you include the network module in your Qt declaration by editing your project's (.pro) file to include the following:

QT += network

Today's computing devices support multiple ways to access the network. For example, an Android tablet can have a built-in 4G wireless wide area network (WAN) adapter as well as a Wi-Fi radio with multiple network configurations for different access points. The...

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Lee Zhi Eng

Lee Zhi Eng is a self-taught programmer who worked as an artist and programmer at several game studios before becoming a part-time lecturer for 2 years at a university, teaching game development subjects related to Unity and Unreal Engine. He has not only taken part in various projects related to games, interactive apps, and virtual reality but has also participated in multiple projects that are more oriented toward software and system development. When he is not writing code, he enjoys traveling, photography, and exploring new technologies.
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