I'm building a web server based on the c sockets after I did all what I have the connection is successfully established but not showing the html on the browser
It's just loading endlessly without showing anything For more details you can see my git hub https://github.com/mostafashraf18/webserver/tree/main
The code `
#include "../include/server.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#define BACKLOG 10
int main() {
WSADATA wsaData;
if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &wsaData) != 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "WSAStartup failed.\n");
exit(1); }
if (LOBYTE(wsaData.wVersion) != 2 ||
HIBYTE(wsaData.wVersion) != 2) {
fprintf(stderr,"Versiion 2.2 of Winsock is not available.\n");
WSACleanup();
exit(2);
}
FILE *html_data;
html_data = fopen("index.html", "r");
char response[1024];
fgets(response, 1024, html_data);
char http_header[2048] = "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n";
strcat(http_header, "Content-Type: text/html\r\n");
strcat(http_header, "\r\n");
strcat(http_header, response);
int server_socket;
server_socket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
struct sockaddr_in server_address;
server_address.sin_family = AF_INET;
server_address.sin_port = htons(8001);
server_address.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
bind(server_socket, (struct sockaddr *) &server_address, sizeof(server_address));
listen(server_socket, BACKLOG);
int client_socket;
while(1){
client_socket = accept(server_socket, NULL, NULL);
send(client_socket, http_header, sizeof(http_header), 0);
close(client_socket);
}
return 0;
}
I tried Changing the http massages, I expecting to know where is the bug
The function fgets will only read a single line of data, so it will only read the following line from your index.html file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
This explains why your browser is only showing an empty page.
If you want to read the entire file into response, I suggest that you either call fgets in a loop or use fread instead. If you use fread, then you will have to add the terminating null character manually, because fread will not write one.
I suggest that you replace the line
fgets(response, 1024, html_data);
with:
size_t chars_read = fread( response, 1, sizeof response - 1, html_data );
response[chars_read] = '\0';