Thread: Loading stuff onto the web???

I'm trying to make a program which saves a file onto a web host then reads it off the web host.

For example if you had a phone book program you could add a phone number to it (this would be saved on the web.) then someone else somewhere in the world with the program would be able to use it to view that number you added.

I hope you can Help

Thank you

All I want to do is have a file put on a server so that the program can access this file from the server and write the file to the server??

I hope that helps

I would like to do it in C and as I don't know PHP I don't fancy learning it at the moment.

All I want is for the user to have a program on there computer which connects to a Web server then reads a file on there then the user can either view or update this file some others with the program can see it.

I have been searching and I found SOCKETS coming up quite a lot would this help? (I don't have a clue what sockets are/do but I am reading a tutorial on it at the moment!)

Hope you can Help

So if I know sockets will that slove my problem?

Thanks for all the help I am now going through all the resources you lot have given me.

One last question where can I upload this file to???

I'm not intending the program to be a windows program (simply becuase I haven't found any good tutorials which teach you how to program windows stuff in C) the program will be in DOS.

Thanks for the help everyone if you have anything at all which might be of help please add it!!!

Code:

/*
** getip.c -- a hostname lookup demo
*/

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

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    struct hostent *h;

    if (argc != 2) {  // error check the command line
        fprintf(stderr,"usage: getip address\n");
        exit(1);
    }

    if ((h=gethostbyname(argv[1])) == NULL) {  // get the host info
        herror("gethostbyname");
        exit(1);
    }

    printf("Host name  : %s\n", h->h_name);
    printf("IP Address : %s\n", inet_ntoa(*((struct in_addr *)h->h_addr)));
   
   return 0;
}

I try and compile the above code on my computer with Dev-C++ and it comes up with the following errors:

netdb.h: No such file or directory
sys/socket.h: No such file or directory
netinet/in.h: No such file or directory
arpa/inet.h: No such file or directory

Is this anything to do with somthing called WINSOCK??
Can anyone please help

www.google.com/search?q=lcc+win32

get it, and be happy.

umm sorry but how is the LCC compiler going to help me solve my problem of how to load and read stuff of web servers???