I started working with sockets recently, but I can't figure out how to get the socket, connect, etc to receive the content on a website. By content, I mostly want it to pull a html file from a website, and the html file just has text. I need that text in a char. Thanks in advance.
Unless you have a compelling reason to do the sockets stuff yourself, just use libcurl. If you want to use sockets, then you need to study, understand, and implement the HTTP 1.1 RFC.
Yes, +1 on libcurl, and use the *easy* calls. I wrote craigslist scraper in a matter of a couple hours and had it working. Check your man pages for curl_easy_init. (and I still don't know much about sockets!! libcurl takes care of it all.)
Mainframe assembler programmer by trade. C coder when I can.
thanks, it works great.
