title: HTTP Requests in C++ without external libraries?
body: <p>So this question has been asked before, but the general answer pointed to was using an external library such as cURLpp. So I was curious as to if HTTP requests could be done using only the standard libraries as of C++14. How difficult would this be?</p>
  
  <p>Say for example, I wanted to get an XML document and store it in a string to be parsed. What steps would have to be taken to achieve this?</p>
  
  <p>If anyone is curious, I'm doing this as a learning experience to better understand how HTTP requests work.</p>