I figured! I had this initial hunch that I needed to be working over Console due to wifi, but what had been throwing me off is that, on occasion, I'd see 'connected' in the serial monitor- but then it wouldn't actually communicate, so I knew something was wrong.
Anyway- I'll be working on a conversion to console for a bit and report back what I'm seeing/hearing from the mcu. I'm really interested to learn why this runCurl loop isn't working.
I assume you don't need to call out any baud rate on either the bridge or the console, right?
Does it matter the order in which you list the 'include' libraries (?) - I'm guessing not.
Finally...since I've run across 'boolean' I'm curious if you can shed light on what that does and/or what the proper use is for it? I've certainly heard of Boolean search nomenclature et al but haven't run across it in programming code until recently.