Accessing a webpage in C/C++

grub · 02-02-2005, 01:03 AM

How can I access a webpage in C/C++.
Basically I need to process info in the webpage and store it.
Since I am addicted to C, I prefer to do this in C.

Grub

Matir · 02-02-2005, 01:19 AM

Well, unless you can find code out there to do this for you, you'd basically have to open a socket to the other end, form proper HTTP messages, and then retrieve and parse the content. Much easier in PERL, PHP, or any of many other languages if you ask me. Though I suppose it depends on your long term goal.

jrtayloriv · 02-02-2005, 01:21 AM

Yeah with just the LWP module, Perl can perform all kinds of web voodoo.

jrtayloriv

grub · 02-02-2005, 02:59 AM

Hi Guys, thank you for your info.
Can you refer me location or books where i can find the protocol/format of messages used for HTTP.

jrtayloriv · 02-02-2005, 03:03 AM

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/ch03.html

jrtayloriv

drisay · 02-02-2005, 06:30 AM

look here http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/competitors.html

there are some http libraries that can be used for c/c++ environments.

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