Abstract
This paper will provide enough information for a C programmer to get started writing programs that communicate the http servers. It assumes some familiarity with network programming concepts, and that the reader has used a web browser. It does not assume a programming knowledge of any network protocol implementation.
The example code was produced using the Win32 API and the sockets API. Sockets will be explored; Win32 will not. Html will only be described in as much detail as is needed to demonstrate http.
Table of Contents
Using the Network
Putting them together - An example of retrieving a page
Resources
Andrew S. Tannenbaum "Computer networks" 3rd edition Prentice Hall
Introduction to Sockets
Bill de la Vega, April 1997