We've seen both the abstract description of http and some of the details needed to use sockets. In this section we'll look at a small program that puts those two together. The program, called dump.exe will go fetch a page of html given a URL.

To run the program issue the command

from the Windows 95 or NT shell. <URL> is a valid URL (I make no assurances of the programs behavior with ill-formed URLs as I didn't do much testing with them). For example:

will fetch a page from the World Wide Web Consortium's web site. It puts the html into a file called dump.log (this gets overwritten with every run).

This program consists of 2 c files, 2 header files, 1 executable & 1 project usable with Visual C++ 5.0.

From the command line and will go , send data out on the network, and shutdown a socket. We've (Application Program Interface) is a set of related functions. Usually APIs come with

An API (Application Program Interface) is a set of related functions. Usually APIs come with