Not in the past few days, IIRC, OpenSSL 1.1 support started with 5.10 and the ore-built package switched to it during the 5.12 release cycle.

@Rizwan94 I never used QNAM, so do not know whether better to use that one or QNetworkReply Yes

Hi, You have to do some testing to see which one works best for you. Since you are using Qt, QNAM asynchronous nature follows Qt design and what you are used to.

If you want to host your Laravel based rest api, then I would recommend doing it on a cloud server. If you don't know how to setup a server on your own, then you can use Cloudways or some other PaaS where server are automatically configured.