send http request in C
#include <stdio.h> /* printf, sprintf */
#include <stdlib.h> /* exit */
#include <unistd.h> /* read, write, close */
#include <string.h> /* memcpy, memset */
#include <sys/socket.h> /* socket, connect */
#include <netinet/in.h> /* struct sockaddr_in, struct sockaddr */
#include <netdb.h> /* struct hostent, gethostbyname */
void error(const char *msg) { perror(msg); exit(0); }
int main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
/* first what are we going to send and where are we going to send it? */
int portno = 80;
char *host = "api.somesite.com";
char *message_fmt = "POST /apikey=%s&command=%s HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n";
struct hostent *server;
struct sockaddr_in serv_addr;
int sockfd, bytes, sent, received, total;
char message[1024],response[4096];
if (argc < 3) { puts("Parameters: <apikey> <command>"); exit(0); }
/* fill in the parameters */
sprintf(message,message_fmt,argv[1],argv[2]);
printf("Request:\n%s\n",message);
/* create the socket */
sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (sockfd < 0) error("ERROR opening socket");
/* lookup the ip address */
server = gethostbyname(host);
if (server == NULL) error("ERROR, no such host");
/* fill in the structure */
memset(&serv_addr,0,sizeof(serv_addr));
serv_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
serv_addr.sin_port = htons(portno);
memcpy(&serv_addr.sin_addr.s_addr,server->h_addr,server->h_length);
/* connect the socket */
if (connect(sockfd,(struct sockaddr *)&serv_addr,sizeof(serv_addr)) < 0)
error("ERROR connecting");
/* send the request */
total = strlen(message);
sent = 0;
do {
bytes = write(sockfd,message+sent,total-sent);
if (bytes < 0)
error("ERROR writing message to socket");
if (bytes == 0)
break;
sent+=bytes;
} while (sent < total);
/* receive the response */
memset(response,0,sizeof(response));
total = sizeof(response)-1;
received = 0;
do {
bytes = read(sockfd,response+received,total-received);
if (bytes < 0)
error("ERROR reading response from socket");
if (bytes == 0)
break;
received+=bytes;
} while (received < total);
/*
* if the number of received bytes is the total size of the
* array then we have run out of space to store the response
* and it hasn't all arrived yet - so that's a bad thing
*/
if (received == total)
error("ERROR storing complete response from socket");
/* close the socket */
close(sockfd);
/* process response */
printf("Response:\n%s\n",response);
return 0;
}