In this tutorial, you will learn how to download a file from a URL over the HTTP protocol using C Socket Program. The complete C programming language source code for this project is given below.
#include <sys/socket.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <netinet/in.h> #include <netdb.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <errno.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> #include <arpa/inet.h> #include <string.h> int ReadHttpStatus(int sock){ char c; char buff[1024]="",*ptr=buff+1; int bytes_received, status; printf("Begin Response ..\n"); while(bytes_received = recv(sock, ptr, 1, 0)){ if(bytes_received==-1){ perror("ReadHttpStatus"); exit(1); } if((ptr[-1]=='\r') && (*ptr=='\n' )) break; ptr++; } *ptr=0; ptr=buff+1; sscanf(ptr,"%*s %d ", &status); printf("%s\n",ptr); printf("status=%d\n",status); printf("End Response ..\n"); return (bytes_received>0)?status:0; } //the only filed that it parsed is 'Content-Length' int ParseHeader(int sock){ char c; char buff[1024]="",*ptr=buff+4; int bytes_received, status; printf("Begin HEADER ..\n"); while(bytes_received = recv(sock, ptr, 1, 0)){ if(bytes_received==-1){ perror("Parse Header"); exit(1); } if( (ptr[-3]=='\r') && (ptr[-2]=='\n' ) && (ptr[-1]=='\r') && (*ptr=='\n' ) ) break; ptr++; } *ptr=0; ptr=buff+4; //printf("%s",ptr); if(bytes_received){ ptr=strstr(ptr,"Content-Length:"); if(ptr){ sscanf(ptr,"%*s %d",&bytes_received); }else bytes_received=-1; //unknown size printf("Content-Length: %d\n",bytes_received); } printf("End HEADER ..\n"); return bytes_received ; } int main(void){ char domain[] = "sstatic.net", path[]="stackexchange/img/logos/so/so-logo-med.png"; int sock, bytes_received; char send_data[1024],recv_data[1024], *p; struct sockaddr_in server_addr; struct hostent *he; he = gethostbyname(domain); if (he == NULL){ herror("gethostbyname"); exit(1); } if ((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0))== -1){ perror("Socket"); exit(1); } server_addr.sin_family = AF_INET; server_addr.sin_port = htons(80); server_addr.sin_addr = *((struct in_addr *)he->h_addr); bzero(&(server_addr.sin_zero),8); printf("Connecting ...\n"); if (connect(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&server_addr,sizeof(struct sockaddr)) == -1){ perror("Connect"); exit(1); } printf("Sending data ...\n"); snprintf(send_data, sizeof(send_data), "GET /%s HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: %s\r\n\r\n", path, domain); if(send(sock, send_data, strlen(send_data), 0)==-1){ perror("send"); exit(2); } printf("Data sent.\n"); //fp=fopen("received_file","wb"); printf("Recieving data...\n\n"); int contentlengh; if(ReadHttpStatus(sock) && (contentlengh=ParseHeader(sock))){ int bytes=0; FILE* fd=fopen("test.png","wb"); printf("Saving data...\n\n"); while(bytes_received = recv(sock, recv_data, 1024, 0)){ if(bytes_received==-1){ perror("recieve"); exit(3); } fwrite(recv_data,1,bytes_received,fd); bytes+=bytes_received; printf("Bytes recieved: %d from %d\n",bytes,contentlengh); if(bytes==contentlengh) break; } fclose(fd); } close(sock); printf("\n\nDone.\n\n"); return 0; }
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