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Asked: 2026-06-06T14:58:46+00:00

I am working on some homework here, but I have completely run out of

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I am working on some homework here, but I have completely run out of ideas. I need to make a simple web browser in C, which must include simple HTML reading. This would be easy normally, but the challenge is this: to challenge myself, I want to use as few libraries as possible. I can use any libraries if I absolutely have to.

I need to fill a char* with the contents of a URL in C, but I cannot figure out how I should do it. Any ideas for this?

Please note that this is not a duplicate of similar questions, as I am asking about C, not it’s libraries.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to write a rudimentary HTTP client. The following basic actions are necessary:

    1. Parsing the URL and extracting the server part and the path part.
    2. Connecting to the server with a socket. The socket is your channel that you read from and write to.
    3. Writing an HTTP GET request with the path.
    4. Reading an HTTP response, which consists of some headers and a body.
    5. Parsing headers into meaningful data, such as status, body length, mime type and encoding.
    6. Decoding the “chunked” encoding if necessary.

    You should be able to start googling now.

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