The goal of this example is to show you how to use the actix-web client (awc) for https related communication. As of actix-web 2.0.0, one must be very careful about setting up https communication. **You could use the default awc api without configuring ssl but performance will be severely diminished**. This example downloads a 10MB image from wikipedia. To run: > curl http://localhost:3000 -o image.jpg