Question

So, i am assuming that i will need to use sockets(i am a newbie to C).

The program will be for Windows(in pure C). And i shall be using these examples

http://cs.baylor.edu/~donahoo/practical/CSockets/winsock.html

My question is, instead of the client program connecting via TCP, i want the server to accept connections via a web browser i.e via HTTP.

So if the server program is running you type http://yourip:port/?gettemps and the server responds, but how do i do it?

As you might have guessed, this program will be for monitoring temps, remotely, via a web browser. But not for the CPU, for the GPU using AMD’s ADL library(so yeah, only AMD cards).

Answer 1

HTTP is quite a big standard, you might want to use some library such as libcurl to handle the details for you.

If you decide to code it yourself, HTTP is running over TCP so you first need to open a TCP socket at the standard HTTP port 80. Then simply listen on the socket and parse the incoming HTTP data – a great summary is given here: http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/.