How Can I Write A C Program That Connects To A Given Web-Server?

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Write a C program that connects to a given Webserver, and downloads a given Webpage hosted
by the server. For simplicity, assume the Webpage is a static, pure HTML page.

Posted 12-Oct-14 11:19am

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[no name] 12-Oct-14 17:34pm

And what is the question? What have you tried? What is the problem with the code you have written?

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Garth J Lancaster · Answer 1 · 2014-10-12T12:24:00

Its not hard

a) set up a socket - for which you'll need host, page & port (maybe these can be passed as parameters) - about 11 lines of code
b) issue a connect using the socket from (a) - 1 line of code
c) [edit - whoops, its a web server you're speaking to] you may need to write a GET [path] HTTP/1.0 and a HOST statement to the socket
d) read the data that comes back from the socket - 2 lines of code can cover (d & e)
e) either write the results from (d) to a file or stdout
f) close and tidy up - 2-3 lines of code

Without comments, its about 20-30 lines of code

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