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The NeL Web library provides HTTP client functionality for game services and the client application. It is a lightweight wrapper around libcurl, providing SSL certificate management, synchronous and asynchronous HTTP requests, and a streamed package provider for downloading game assets from a CDN.

The library is built as nelweb and links against libcurl, OpenSSL, and libxml2.

• HTTP Client — Synchronous HTTP GET/POST requests with cookie and authentication support
• SSL Certificates — Loading and applying custom SSL/TLS certificates for CURL
• HTTP POST Task — Fire-and-forget asynchronous HTTP POST via a background thread
• Streamed Package Provider — Download and cache LZMA-compressed game assets from an HTTP CDN

S3-compatible object storage support should be added to NeL Web. An S3 client would provide a cloud storage backend usable by the Backup Service (BS) as an alternative to on-disk file storage for character saves, guild data, and other persistent data. This would simplify production deployments by removing the need for shared network filesystems between BS instances, enable built-in replication and durability guarantees from the storage provider, and allow backup snapshots to be stored off-site with minimal configuration. The implementation could use libcurl's existing HTTP support with S3's REST API and AWS Signature V4 authentication, or wrap an existing lightweight S3 client library. {.is-info}