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...