# Web API http vs https

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-api-http-vs-https/853891>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [September 27, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-api-http-vs-https/853891 "2020-09-27T17:27:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![rituparnau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbe5ce/32.png) [@rituparnau](https://community.thunkable.com/u/rituparnau)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-api-http-vs-https/853891/1 "2020-09-27T17:27:12Z")

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I am calling a http GET Web API to my flask server. However the server always receives “https” even though the URL is “http”. Is http not supported at all? or is it an advanced option?

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**Author:** ![brobbins19958](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brobbins19958](https://community.thunkable.com/u/brobbins19958)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 3:52am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-api-http-vs-https/853891/2 "2021-01-21T03:52:12Z")

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having the same issue here. a reply to this would be very helpful.

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-api-http-vs-https/853891/3 "2021-01-21T03:57:17Z")

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@brobbins19958 Can you share the url you’re using for the GET call?

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**Author:** ![gobassky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/gobassky/32/77019_2.png) [@gobassky](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gobassky)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 4:33am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-api-http-vs-https/853891/4 "2022-01-08T04:33:40Z")

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Yes. same here. spent hours debugging my API until I realised through webview on broswer developer tools that thunkable have been sending HTTPS instead of HTTP. Is there no way to use HTTP on webAPI blocks? even when we clearly put HTTP as the URL?

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**Author:** ![gobassky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/gobassky/32/77019_2.png) [@gobassky](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gobassky)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-api-http-vs-https/853891/5 "2022-01-08T04:42:10Z")

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You may try ANY HTTP URL and view its responsive web-app on browser. Then go to browser developer tools to see the outgoing request header. It is always HTTPS.

I only discovered this when I had my API built serving only HTTP. Besides building a HTTPS pipe, is there other way to make thunkable send out HTTP instead?

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-api-http-vs-https/853891/6 "2024-11-08T12:23:47Z")

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