Example of C source code for getting web page.

[AmigaEd]

Hello,
I'm trying to learn C and I am wondering if someone out there might have a very simple example of some C source code that will grab a web page and display it or even just save it as a file.

I've looked at a few programs on aminet, but I can't seem to make sense out of them.

Thank you,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

by koaftder on 2006/1/20 22:05:10
This isnt too bad achttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=software+hut&btnG=Google+Searchtually. Learn your tcp library. All you have to do is issue one simple string. something like "GET HTTP 1.0 /"

Hi koaftder,
The link you posted seems to take me to a bunch of links to software hut on google.

Can you please post the link again or point me to the correct site.

Thank you,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

by ChaosLord on 2006/1/20 23:32:26
The word "Amiga" does not exist on that site.

I agree I looked that site all over and could find no reference to "Amiga".

I really need some code that I can compile and run on an Amiga. Linux is just not an option for me right now.

Best Regards,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

@koaftder,
Hey no problem, no need to be sorry. All of the information that you have posted has been very helpful and I'm sure that eventually I will also give this a try on windoze or unix (for work purposes of course ) ;-)

Best Regards,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

Hi Piru,
We know you are the Amiga Code master.
How about showing us the correct way to do it.

Thank you,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

@Piru,
Thank you for posting the code.

When I try to compile the code I get an error. Here is the compiler log....

Compiler: m68k-AmigaOS
Executing  m68k-amigaos-gcc.exe...
m68k-amigaos-gcc.exe "C:\CrossCompiler\AmiDevCpp\MyAmigaCProjects\GetWebPageExamples\Piru's example\PirusExample.c" -o "C:\CrossCompiler\AmiDevCpp\MyAmigaCProjects\GetWebPageExamples\Piru's example\PirusExample.exe"    -I"C:\CrossCompiler\AmiDevCpp\usr\local\amiga\m68k-amigaos\sys-include"  -I"C:\CrossCompiler\AmiDevCpp\usr\local\amiga\m68k-amigaos\include"  -I"C:\CrossCompiler\AmiDevCpp\usr\local\amiga\include\g++-3"   -L"C:\CrossCompiler\AmiDevCpp\usr\local\amiga\m68k-amigaos\lib" -L"C:\CrossCompiler\AmiDevCpp\usr\local\amiga\m68k-amigaos\lib\libnix"
In file included from /usr/local/amiga/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/3.4.0/../../../../m68k-amigaos/sys-include/clib/alib_protos.h:22,
                 from C:\CrossCompiler\AmiDevCpp\MyAmigaCProjects\GetWebPageExamples\Piru's example\PirusExample.c:23:
/usr/local/amiga/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/3.4.0/../../../../m68k-amigaos/sys-include/devices/timer.h:30: error: redefinition of `struct timeval'
Execution terminated



I can't quite figure out what is going on.

IF I comment out the...
#include
then I can get it to compile and it seems to work.

Thank you,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

@uncharted,
Hey that is a pretty nice tutorial, just what a newbie like me needs...  :-D

Thank you,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

Yes, I also meant nice tutorial as in "easy to follow".

Piru, I understand part of the bugs you are talking about and the other half I'm lost. That's o.k. though... I'm learning and that is the important part.

I hope that someday I will be able to write some C code that works, is mostly bug free and is useful.

Best Regards,
AmigaEd