Help with Parsing HTTP response from server

**NuNn** · 02-19-2009

I have a server set up to respond to and http request with the following:

Code:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK 
From: NuNn-DaDdY
User-Agent: ./server
Server: Local-Host
Date: 13/1/2009 
Last-Modified: Fri Feb 13 10:37:07 2009
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length 8238

<html>
   ....
</html>

How would I set up my program effectively to parse this response so I know the server returned 200 which means ok,
from=NuNn-DaDdY
User-Agent= ./server
....
Content-Length = 8238

Then, once I find the opening <html> tag, I would like to assign the rest of the response to a variable named body...Thanks!

**carrotcake1029** · 02-19-2009

Well I know this about the http protocol. After the http header, you can find \r\n\r\n, versus just \r\n. This tells you the start of the data. The data is also then terminated with \r\n\r\n.

I am pretty sure it is standard for the response number to be in the first line of the http header, so you can just parse the first line and throw down a strstr.

Code:

void checkresponse (char *data)
{
    char *pch = strstr(data, "200 OK");
    if (pch != NULL)
        printf("We found it!\n");
}

**NuNn** · 02-19-2009

I had originall thought about the strstr function, I believe the strstr function returns a pointer to where the current position is with the target value. From here would you recommend that I use a strtok on that to get the value for say Content-Length after searching for 'Content-Length:' with strstr

**EVOEx** · 02-19-2009

To do it completely compliant to the RFC, it's a lot of work. You'll have to completely read it first. There are some strange rules, like when a line starts with a whitespace it is part of the previous line, and stuff like that.

If you don't need it a 100% perfect, you can simply locate the spaces, newlines and colons. While it wouldn't be a good parser, most of the times it would work...

**NuNn** · 02-19-2009

No need to be compliant on this one with the RFC, Just needs to work

was on the right track then with the strtok idea are strstr giving me the pointer?

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