From: ovek AT arcticnet DOT no (Ove Kaaven) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: tcp again Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 14:50:37 GMT Organization: Arctic Net AS Lines: 10 Message-ID: <34b788fe.25008121@news.arcticnet.no> References: <199801101439 DOT PAA31128 AT friko3 DOT onet DOT pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: hjemme-pc.arcticnet.no To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk "Man2die4" wrote: >some lame question: when i download html file from www, how to reckognize >eof? This isn't a network protocol newsgroup, but the answer is simple: you don't. Take the Content-Length: header from the HTTP/1.0 (or 1.1 or whatever) headers to find how much to download, and/or detect when the socket has been closed (recv() returns zero but no error).