help with viewing web pages through a socket

[moroccanplaya]

i have created a webserver that listens to on port 7000 but when i connect to it via the browser http://localhost:7000 i dont get anything and the webserver stops

so can anyone help me here this is what i got so far

       open_ptr = open("/home/user/www/home.html",'r'); 
 
    while((n = read(open_ptr,buffer,256)) > 0)
    {
 
    n = write( new_sock,buffer,256); 
 
    }
 
     close(open_ptr); 
 
     return 0; 
     } 
 
 
 

[Banfa]

What do you mean by you have create a web server?
You have written the code for one?
You have configured an already available web server? Which One?

Have you read the HTTP protocol?
What is the contents of /home/user/www/home.html?
Does if conform to a get or post request (or some other http request type)?

[moroccanplaya]

yeah i am trying to write a simple web server the contents oh home.html is just a simple html file with the title "home"

i havent used any get or post in my code, is there anything that can i can read up on which will help with my code ?

[Banfa]

Are you writing a web-server because you want to write a web-server or because you need a web-server to create a web-site?

If its the latter case then I would just download and install Apache.

If you are writing a web-server for the programming experience the first thing you should do is familiarise yourself with http, Wikipedia is as good a place to start as any for that.

[moroccanplaya]

yeah its for my programming experience i created a socket i binded the socket to a port, then i listen on the socket then accept the connection but i am just stuck on how to send the the page to the browser ?

[Banfa]

When you have excepted the connection the first thing to do is not send a page to the browser but wait for the browser to request a page, which it will do using HTTP, which is why I say read about and understand the basics of HTTP first.