From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Can I query the WWW from a DJGPP program?
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 12:45:28 +0000
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Hello.

Jason Green wrote:
> I believe there is also a demo program with libsocket called httpget
> that might suit, I have not used this.

Yes, it does. It implements HTTP/0.9, the most basic version of HTTP in
use today. Use it like so:

    httpget http://somehost.com/dir/page.html

It will show you how to connect to a host and do basic web page fetches.
You may also want to look at Beej's Guide to Network Programming:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/lsck/doc/beejng/

libsocket is here:

    http://libsocket.tsx.org/

You can download version 0.8.0 pre 1 from the download page.

HTH, bye,

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Richard Dawe
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