Maybe I am looking in the wrong place, but I was having trouble googleing this information.
Basically, what I want to do is connect to a webserver and get a pages html and save it locally (also want to do this with images on the given page). Anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks.
Try google or yahoo or another such search engine.
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Or post this question in the Networking board.
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Hi
Nowadays i am working on such an application that retrives the HTML pages from a web serverThis is your luck day, but for images, i have no idea!
Just use ordinary socket functions. And don't forget to set the server's port to 80. So, your sockaddr_in structure will seem like this
char *msg="GET /\n";
struct sockaddr_in server;
....
....
server.sin_family=AF_INET;
server.sin_port=htons(80); /* for HTTP */
server.sin_addr.s_addr=inet_addr("server_IP_addres ");
memset(&(server.sin_zero),'\0",8);
connect(....);
send(sockfd,msg,strlen(msg),0);
and save the received data into a ASCII file which has "html" extension. This is the way I use....
The "GET /" specifies the page that you want to get.For example "GET /foo/tux.html" will get the http://www.your_server.com/foo/tux.html. Get more information about HTTP specifications from google.
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> Anyone point me in the right direction?
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html
Or if you want to write some code yourself
http://curl.haxx.se/
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Thanks for the help everyone, I would prefer not to use curl or wget as Im trying to make something thats not completely operating system specific....
Ill give fnoyan's socket example a try...thanks again.
