RE: how to invoke URL from c code

[Stephen F. Booth]

I assume you want a way to somehow get the contents of any web page into a
memory buffer.  cgicc won't help with this, as it is just a library for
writing CGI applications.  Luckily it isn't too hard to just download a web
page from C- you can do it the hard way, using raw sockets and all that, or
you can use libwww (or some other www library).  Check out
http://www.w3.org/Library/Examples/ for some sample code for the w3c libwww,
http://www.w3.org/Library/ .  They show you how to make an HTTP GET request,
and download the headers + data or just the headers, or just the data, etc.

-Stephen

>       I am interested in this too.  I would want to get a page
> from another
> computer using the url and then save it into a file.
> >
> > I am under trouble and getting it difficult to invoke
> > an URL from a c program ( on UNIX ) from the net,
> > which is very urgent , can any one help me out?