CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user1137117
user1137117

Reputation: 21

how to get http status code in a web client written in c

I am currently building an http web client using sockets which gets a url as input and should perform the following task: Connect to the web server and save the response of the server in a file, and print the status code included in the http response.

I have completed the first part of writing in a file and I am having a problem with retrieving the status code. Is there a library or a function that could help me?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1497

Answers (2)

NPE
NPE

Reputation: 500457

The first line of the response is the status line, and is very easy to parse. It consists of the protocol version followed by a numeric status code and its associated textual phrase ("OK", "Not Found" etc).

For example:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

The exact syntax and the list of valid codes is documented in RFC 2616 (section 6.1).

Upvotes: 2

user457015
user457015

Reputation: 981

You should use libcurl to perform the HTTP request.

And the function curl_easy_getinfo to get the HTTP code.

Upvotes: 2

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