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SimpleSockets http://sockets.carrierlabs.com/

// a example to grab a web page from yahoo and write to output.html
#include "ActiveSocket.h"

int test_socket()
{
    int strip_http_header = 1;
#define TEST_PACKET "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n"
    HANDLE hFile = CreateFile((LPCWSTR)_T("output.html"),                // name of the write
                       GENERIC_WRITE,          // open for writing
                       0,                      // do not share
                       NULL,                   // default security
                       CREATE_ALWAYS,          // overwrite existing
                       FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,  // normal file
                       NULL);                  // no attr. template
    CActiveSocket client;
    client.Initialize();
    //client.SetNonblocking();
    if (client.Open((uint8 *)"tw.yahoo.com", 80))
    {
        if (client.Send((uint8 *)TEST_PACKET, strlen(TEST_PACKET)))
        {
            int numBytes = -1;
            client.Shutdown(CSimpleSocket::CShutdownMode::Sends);
            //client.Select();

            while ( (numBytes = client.Receive(1024)) > 0 )
            {
                int offset = 0;
                char *find;
                if( strip_http_header )
                {
                    int linetype = 0;
                    char *data = (char*)client.GetData();
                    if( ((find = strstr(data, "\r\n\r\n")) != NULL && (linetype = 4) != 0) || 
                        ((find = strstr(data, "\n\n")) != NULL && (linetype = 2) != 0) ||
                        ((find = strstr(data, "\n\r\n")) != NULL && (linetype = 3) != 0) ||
                        ((find = strstr(data, "\r\n\n")) != NULL && (linetype = 3) != 0) )
                    {
                        strip_http_header = 0;
                        offset = find - data + linetype;
                    }
                }
                else
                    offset = 0;
                if(FALSE == WriteFile(hFile,           // open file handle
                        client.GetData() + offset,     // start of data to write
                        numBytes, // number of bytes to write
                        (LPDWORD)&numBytes, // number of bytes that were written
                        NULL)            // no overlapped structure
                )
                {
                    CloseHandle(hFile);
                    return -1;
                }
            }
            CloseHandle(hFile);
            return 0;
        }
    }
    CloseHandle(hFile);
    return -1;
}