Thread: Socket web browser

I am trying to create a simple web browser, but I have not found any tutorials. I have read a socket tutorial (but it is not on creating a web browser), and the code I give below is what I have come with. I do not know why it does not work at all. It kind of stops at the receive part. I used a packet sniffer and saw that I was sending some data to the site address, but I am not getting the webpage HTML code back. Can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong?

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <winsock.h>

WSADATA wsaData;
char buf[100];
int socketsrc, bytesRecv, bytesSent;
struct sockaddr_in dest_addr;
struct hostent *h;
char *msg = "GET / HTTP/1.1";

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(1, 1), &wsaData) != 0)
{
    fprintf(stderr, "WSAStartup failed.\n");
    exit(1);
    }
    if ((socketsrc = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) == -1)
    {
     perror("socket");
     exit(1);
     }
    printf("\nsuccess: socket");

     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
     printf("\nNo Host for %s", argv[1]);
     exit(1);
     }
    printf("\nsuccess: hostname");
    dest_addr.sin_family = AF_INET; // host byte order
    dest_addr.sin_port = htons(80); // short, network byte order
    dest_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("216.239.57.99");
    memset(&(dest_addr.sin_zero), 0, 8); // zero the rest of the struct
    
    if (connect(socketsrc, (struct sockaddr *)&dest_addr,
    sizeof(struct sockaddr)) == -1) {
    perror("connect");
    exit(1);
    }
    printf("\nsuccess: connect");
        
    bytesSent = send(socketsrc, msg, strlen(msg), 0);
    printf( "\nBytes Sent: %d", bytesSent );

    //and this is where I think the program just stops

    while((bytesRecv = recv( socketsrc, buf, 99, 0 )) != -1 ) {
      if ( bytesRecv == 0) {
       printf( "\nConnection Closed.");
       break;
      }
    printf( "\nBytes Recv: %d", bytesRecv );
    }

    printf("\nsuccess: recieve");
    closesocket(socketsrc);

    WSACleanup();
    return 0;
}