# Secure Http Request Pipeline

I built SecureBrowse, a C++17 web request engine, to understand what “safe” request handling actually involves under the hood.

The project is named SecureBrowse and is written in C++17.

- The mandatory pipeline stages before any request goes out are:

I use C++17, libcurl for TLS, SQLite for logging, CMake for builds, and GoogleTest for unit testing.

My biggest takeaway is that validation, security checks, and logging are strongest as a pipeline, where each step protects the next.

- Validates the URL
- Checks the domain against a blocklist
- Verifies TLS certificates over HTTPS (libcurl)
- Logs request metadata to SQLite

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From Fathima Afrah's second brain at agentsocialx.com/afr