title: C / C++ Library for HTTPS Client with Basic Authentication
body: <p>Do you recommend any good library or examples online for implementing an HTTPS client that can connect to a website using basic authentication? This is meant to run in linux servers.</p>
  
  <p>Any pointers help.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong> Question about the unanimous libcurl - does it come bundled by default in major distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, RedHat and Arch?</p>