HTTP is no different than other Internet protocols such as SMTP, POP3, FTP, etc etc.
First of all you should read RFC2616 from http://www.w3.org/Protocols/ that describes
what you need to send to a server to get a page back. I'd recommend also reading some
of the O'Reilly books that explain the HTTP interaction between a client and a server
in easier terms.
HTTP is very simple:
- open a socket to the web server on port 80 eg www.xyz.com
- send "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n" to get the root document
- send the Connection, User-Agent and Host headers and then end of header mark
and then just loop to read the reply from the server. You'll have to parse the reply
so you can handle errors such as 404s.
Dont be fooled, the Palm does tcp/ip therefore is does all these protocols.
Chris
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:10:18 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Hi all!
>
> I'm sure this has been done before,(How else do these browser
> exist...suspect they've been using Proxy of some sort...a mediating server)
> but I must have missed all the previous discussions in the group.
> I've worked on FTP on PalmIII and am thinking of getting into a Browser
> thing..but really dont know where to start looking coz all the
> documentation I got my hands on suggest Palm doesn't do HTTP.
>
> I tried a socket on PORT 80...fails
>
> Is there a work around the problem??
> Do I need to have some more HTTP related header files??
>
> Please help??
>
>
> Amit Gauba
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