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Yotam Harchol
@yotamhc
Research Scientist at @dfinity. Networking, distributed systems, blockchain, security. Past: @EPFL_en, @Berkeley_EECS, @vmware, @CseHuji
Sep 9, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In a few days, canisters (applications running on chain on the #IC) will be able to make HTTPS requests to any external web endpoint. It will be the first ever blockchain to allow that, and will remove the need for external oracles. Here’s how it works: 🧵 1/7 2/7 A canister issue a http_request by calling an API function and specifying the method, target URL, headers, body, and a “transform” function. We’ll get to that function later.