Thread: Socket connection problem

Hello There, I am trying to change a simple client code that will retrieve the web pages from any web site using TCP sockets. It fails in the connect function.
When I made the code run on my m/c (with a server), it worked fine but it doesnt create connection to other web sites like google and all. I have a similar Java code that works but don't know where exactly am I going wrong.

I am running it on a 64 bit AMD Turion X2 with Ubuntu 9.10

Code :

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>

#define MAXRCVLEN 500
#define PORTNUM 80

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char buffer[MAXRCVLEN + 1];
int len, mysocket;
struct sockaddr_in dest;
int ret;
struct hostent * hinfo;
char * sname;
if (argc > 1)
{sname=argv[1];}
else
{sname="cprogramming.com";}

mysocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

memset(&dest, 0, sizeof(dest));
dest.sin_family = AF_INET;

hinfo = gethostbyname(sname);
if(hinfo == NULL) {printf("getbyname failed!\n");}

dest.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(hinfo->h_addr);

dest.sin_port = htons(PORTNUM);

ret = connect(mysocket, (struct sockaddr *)&dest, sizeof(struct sockaddr));
printf("Connection status:%d\n", ret); /* ret is -1 here*/

len = recv(mysocket, buffer, MAXRCVLEN, 0);
buffer[len] = '\0';

close(mysocket);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

well, my friend helped me out. i made the following change
As was:
dest.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(hinfo->h_addr);
Changed To:
dest.sin_addr = *(struct in_addr *)(hinfo->h_addr);

Now the connection is working but recv gets hanged. Probably need to send some formatted request to server. But why dont we need to do that request in Java?