Example: A simple blocking HTTP client

/* For sockaddr_in */
#include <netinet/in.h>
/* For socket functions */
#include <sys/socket.h>
/* For gethostbyname */
#include <netdb.h>

#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int c, char **v)
{
const char query[] =
"GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n"
"Host: www.google.com\r\n"
"\r\n";
const char hostname[] = "www.google.com";
struct sockaddr_in sin;
struct hostent *h;
const char *cp;
int fd;
ssize_t n_written, remaining;
char buf[1024];

/* Look up the IP address for the hostname.   Watch out; this isn't
threadsafe on most platforms. */
h = gethostbyname(hostname);
if (!h) {
fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't lookup %s: %s", hostname, hstrerror(h_errno));
return 1;
}
if (h->h_addrtype != AF_INET) {
fprintf(stderr, "No ipv6 support, sorry.");
return 1;
}

/* Allocate a new socket */
fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (fd < 0) {
perror("socket");
return 1;
}

/* Connect to the remote host. */
sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
sin.sin_port = htons(80);
sin.sin_addr = *(struct in_addr*)h->h_addr;
if (connect(fd, (struct sockaddr*) &sin, sizeof(sin))) {
perror("connect");
close(fd);
return 1;
}

/* Write the query. */
/* XXX Can send succeed partially? */
cp = query;
remaining = strlen(query);
while (remaining) {
n_written = send(fd, cp, remaining, 0);
if (n_written <= 0) {
perror("send");
return 1;
}
remaining -= n_written;
cp += n_written;
}

/* Get an answer back. */
while (1) {
ssize_t result = recv(fd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0);
if (result == 0) {
break;
} else if (result < 0) {
perror("recv");
close(fd);
return 1;
}
fwrite(buf, 1, result, stdout);
}

close(fd);
return 0;
}