From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Can I query the WWW from a DJGPP program?
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Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 02:49:35 GMT
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On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 20:34:40 -0800, "mike" <my DOT address AT end DOT of DOT article>
wrote:

>I already know what HTTP looks like, and can get the specs,
>but I don't know anything about sockets or lynx-source.

Lynx is an HTTP client and a character-cell HTML browser.
  http://www.trill-home.com/lynx.html
First, make sure Lynx is installed on the PATH, then try this:

int pull_html(const char *url)
{
  char url[], cmdline[256];
  sprintf(cmdline, "lynx -source %s", url);
  system("lynx -source foo.html > temp.tmp")
}

This pulls the requested page into a file called temp.tmp, which you
can fopen() and parse.

I'm using a temporary file instead of a popen() because Lynx on the
PATH is most likely a Win32 build, and AFAIK popen() has problems
between DOS and Win32 programs (i.e. across virtual machines).

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