Hi
I have started writing an app(in c and compiled with gcc) that delivers
html pages (aptly named a web server). my current code for sending the
http header and code looks like this:
// send header
send(clntSocket, "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n", 16, 0);
send(clntSocket, "Content-type: text/html\n", 25, 0);
send(clntSocket, "Content-length:\n\n", 18, 0); //extra line feed for
http spec
//html code
send(clntSocket, "<HTML>", 6, 0);
send(clntSocket, "<HEAD>", 6, 0);
send(clntSocket, "<TITLE>", 7, 0);
send(clntSocket, "A Small Hello", 13, 0);
send(clntSocket, "</TITLE>", 8, 0);
send(clntSocket, "</HEAD>", 7, 0);
send(clntSocket, "<BODY>", 6, 0);
send(clntSocket, "<H1>Hi</H1>", 11, 0);
send(clntSocket, "<P>This is very minimal hello world HTML
document.</P>", 55, 0);
send(clntSocket, "</BODY>", 7, 0);
send(clntSocket, "</HTML>", 7, 0);
//close socket
close(clntSocket);
this is just to test the socket connection. The problem is, i try to
use internet explorer or firefox to connect to the server and retrieve
this test page. Both web browsers connect to the server but both fail
to load the page. Internet explorer complains that it cannot find
server. and firefox says that the connection was reset before the page
could be loaded. The thing is though, if i use wget to connect to the
server, it does manage to download the test page correctly. I have read
through the http specs, and they say that the header should be sent
followed by a new line (/n) then the data/html, once this is sent the
connection should then be closed. I have followed those specs but i am
unable to see why the code works when wget is connecting but not when
web browsers try.... anyone got any ideas????
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