Addressing wxWebRequest Requests

wxWebRequest is a very useful class if you need to perform some HTTPS requests from a GUI application: it’s, perhaps, not the fastest nor the most full-featured, but it doesn’t have any dependencies and provides a very simple way to do it without blocking the normal event handling of the GUI program, i.e. without making it “unresponsive”, thanks to its asynchronous nature. However, ever since it was added, there were requests to add an even simpler way to use it in blocking, or synchronous, way, when this i