Webserver with VC++

[charlie]

I want to code for a webserver using VC++.

There will only be a server part. It has to listen to a port and on
request display web pages.

The request will be like "http://swift.com:<portno>" from a browser.

I would like to know how can I send a page to a browser, and whether I
should use html or others for this purpose.

If I have to retrieve information form the user how can I make my
program do that.

Thanks in advance,
Charlie.

[Larry I Smith]

charlie wrote:

I want to code for a webserver using VC++.

There will only be a server part. It has to listen to a port and on
request display web pages.

The request will be like "http://swift.com:<portno>" from a browser.

I would like to know how can I send a page to a browser, and whether I
should use html or others for this purpose.

If I have to retrieve information form the user how can I make my
program do that.

Thanks in advance,
Charlie.

This is off-topic in this newsgroup, but either you have
to code an entire WEB server (non-trivial), or you can just
install/use a WEB server (the free Apache server perhaps).

Is this a homework assignment?

Larry

[Victor Bazarov]

charlie wrote:

I want to code for a webserver using VC++.
[...]

This is impossible using the means of the Standard C++ language only.
Your query is simply misplaced. You need to ask in a newsgroup for
programming your OS or, at least, in microsoft.public.vc.language.

V

[charlie]

I do not want to code for the whole complexity of a web server. I just
want to use it locally in my network as a tool to log some information
from different users.

I have another application that talks with a mainframe to do some
checks. this was written in VC++. I want this tool also to be in VC++
so that I can integrate the former application. This will help me
reduce much amount of labour.

I just want to know how to send pages written in Html using a simple
socket based connection.

To be clear...on receiving a call to the port that my program will
listen I have to fork a new process for data to flow. if the data is
html conten how can I send such a file for the user to view supposing
he is using IE to connect to my application.

please let me know any ideas of doing this.

[Victor Bazarov]

charlie wrote:

I do not want to code for the whole complexity of a web server. I just
want to use it locally in my network as a tool to log some information
from different users.

I have another application that talks with a mainframe to do some
checks. this was written in VC++. I want this tool also to be in VC++
so that I can integrate the former application. This will help me
reduce much amount of labour.

I just want to know how to send pages written in Html using a simple
socket based connection.

To be clear...on receiving a call to the port that my program will
listen I have to fork a new process for data to flow. if the data is
html conten how can I send such a file for the user to view supposing
he is using IE to connect to my application.

please let me know any ideas of doing this.

What in "impossible using the means of Standard C++" don't you get?
This is not a VC++ newsgroup. Network, sockets, HTML, forking, IE,
are all OT (that's short for off-topic) here. Do you understand the
_OT_ part? If you do, find another place to ask your question. I
strongly recommend the newsgroup for your OS. Or, if you don't find
anything better, you could ask in 'microsoft.public.vc.language'.
That's where they ask about VC++. Get it?

[Larry I Smith]

charlie wrote:

I do not want to code for the whole complexity of a web server. I just
want to use it locally in my network as a tool to log some information
from different users.

I have another application that talks with a mainframe to do some
checks. this was written in VC++. I want this tool also to be in VC++
so that I can integrate the former application. This will help me
reduce much amount of labour.

I just want to know how to send pages written in Html using a simple
socket based connection.

To be clear...on receiving a call to the port that my program will
listen I have to fork a new process for data to flow. if the data is
html conten how can I send such a file for the user to view supposing
he is using IE to connect to my application.

please let me know any ideas of doing this.

You'll need to read these...

"HTTP Made Really Easy":
http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/#toc

Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2616):
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html

Regards,
Larry