Thread: reading txt file from the internet website

hello,
i want read a txt file on the internet i.e (http://dhagames.my3gb.com/dhagc.txt)

i actually want that i am making a game zone which has subscription from internet and the below program opens the website for subscription and user enters his username and password he want to set for this gaming zone.and his username and password saves in above txt file and i want to read this txt file through c program.how to do that?please help.a piece of code will be good help.i dont want u to do this for me but please help.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <conio.h>
int main()
{
    char* pass;
    char* p="hello";
    int i=0,x;
    printf("You have to register First in order to use our Game zone");
    printf("\nPress 1 to open our website\n");
    scanf("%d",&x);
    if (x==1)
    {
        system("start firefox.exe www.dhagames.my3gb.com/dha.html");
    }
    printf("Enter password and press ENTER.\n \n");

    {
        printf("Password: ");
        scanf( "%s",  pass);

        if(strcmp ( pass, p ) == 0)
        {
            printf("Correct Password. \n \n");
            i=10;
        }
        else
        {
            if(strcmp ( pass, "hint" ) == 0)
            {
                printf("Password Hint: Form of salutation. \n \n");
            }
            else
            {
                printf("Incorrect Password. \nType 'hint' for help. \n \n");
                i++;
            }
        }

    }





}

The way you have it now, your program will only work if the user uses Firefox on Windows. Also, get rid of the magic number 10 on line 26. Change:

Code:

scanf("%d",&x);
if (x == 1) { /* ... */

to

Code:

if (getchar() == 1) { /* ... */

If you really want to interface with a website, learn how to use sockets and make POST/GET requests to send and receive data on HTTP clients. These links should help you:

HTTP/1.1: Method Definitions (http protocol)

Beej's Guide to Network Programming (sockets)

i just want to copy it in a string aur txt file in my computer.dont want to control any thing.can you tell me how to include this libcurl in my codeblocks mingw compiler.??

Originally Posted by danishzaidi

i just want to copy it in a string aur txt file in my computer.dont want to control any thing.can you tell me how to include this libcurl in my codeblocks mingw compiler.??

how to add libcurl library?

We've been over this. ^^