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HTTP Request in C using low level write to socket functionality
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <netinet/tcp.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netdb.h>
int socket_connect(char *host, in_port_t port){
struct hostent *hp;
struct sockaddr_in addr;
int on = 1, sock;
if((hp = gethostbyname(host)) == NULL){
herror("gethostbyname");
exit(1);
}
bcopy(hp->h_addr, &addr.sin_addr, hp->h_length);
addr.sin_port = htons(port);
addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
sock = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
setsockopt(sock, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, (const char *)&on, sizeof(int));
if(sock == -1){
perror("setsockopt");
exit(1);
}
if(connect(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)) == -1){
perror("connect");
exit(1);
}
return sock;
}
#define BUFFER_SIZE 1024
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
int fd;
char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE];
if(argc < 3){
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <hostname> <port>\n", argv[0]);
exit(1);
}
fd = socket_connect(argv[1], atoi(argv[2]));
write(fd, "GET /\r\n", strlen("GET /\r\n")); // write(fd, char[]*, len);
bzero(buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);
while(read(fd, buffer, BUFFER_SIZE - 1) != 0){
fprintf(stderr, "%s", buffer);
bzero(buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);
}
shutdown(fd, SHUT_RDWR);
close(fd);
return 0;
}
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