I'm looking for a library that provides http functions to a C program to be written in UNIX. I just need basic functionality that provides the abililty to download raw source code for web pages which will then be passed to a parser and analysed for various different things. Does anybody know where such a library can be found? Thanks a lot!

Hello wbutler. Welcome to the forums.

Let me make sure that I understand what you are looking for. You want to be able to parse html source file to find different things, is that correct? I don't have a library coded to do that. But if you are looking to do something like this and can't find a pre-coded library, I have posted a couple of functions here that may get you started.

If you want a library to make html/cgi pages from a c file, I do have a library to do that.

It sounds more likely to me that he wants to open a socket to a remote http webserver, and fetch a webpage.

Since I don't know what library might be compatible with your compiler (in theory they should all be), so have a look at some of these listings:
www.thefreecountry.com
www.programmersheaven.com
samba.anu.edu.au

I use g++, and there's a fetch.h header file with functions getHTTP which look perfect, but I cannot find any mention of it being a standard part of the library. Have a look through your compilers library before heading off to other sources.

GF