ESP8266 WiFi Shield (WRL-13287): How to make HTTPS Requests??

For the life of me HTTPS does not seem to work which makes this board/shield/chip useless now that 99% of all sites use https. I am simply trying to do a GET to wunderground using a red board uno, sparkfun weather shield and this wifi shield. The only thing that works is example.com which is HTTP. The shield demo sketch fails to connect with any other server as well.

Is there an updated Sparkfun libs?

Maybe this will help?

https://hackaday.com/2020/07/02/easy-se … n-esp8266/

YellowDog:
Maybe this will help?

https://hackaday.com/2020/07/02/easy-se … n-esp8266/

Thank you. I will take a look!