Creating thumbnails for remote videos

You have some video files stored on some remote storage (dropbox, google drive) and you want to create thumbnails without downloading the whole file.

Boost.Asio HTTPS client

The boost asio official documentation gives two examples of making HTTP requests and using SSL for a connection. However, none of these examples do a HTTPS GET request.
In other words, if you want to make a HTTP GET request over a secure connection, you need to combine the two examples.
The links to the examples are http client and ssl client.