How to send POST Request and receive GET response - c++

Question

I'm trying to send a POST Request and receive a GET response in return.
Here is my code :
#define IP "87.98.245.77"
#define Port 80
void getGETMessage(SOCKET s)
{
char *data = new char[2000];
recv(s, data, strlen(data), NULL);
int x = 3;
}
void SendPOSTMessage(SOCKET s)
{
string data = "POST /index.php?p=convert HTTP/1.1"
"Host: convert2mp3.netConnection: keep-alive"
"Content-Length: 80";
"Cache-Control: max-age=0"
"Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8"
"Origin: http://convert2mp3.net"
"User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.114 Safari/537.36"
"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
"Referer: http://convert2mp3.net/index.php?p=home"
"Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch"
"Accept-Language: he-IL,he;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4,de;q=0.2,fr;q=0.2";
if (send(s, data.c_str(), data.length(), NULL) < data.length())
{
cout << "Error : " << WSAGetLastError() << endl;
return ;
}
getGETMessage(s);
}
int main()
{
char *data = new char[200];
WSADATA wsaData;
int iResult = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &wsaData);
SOCKET ConnectSocket;
ConnectSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
sockaddr_in clientService;
clientService.sin_family = AF_INET;
clientService.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(IP); // IP
clientService.sin_port = htons(Port); // Port
iResult = connect(ConnectSocket, (SOCKADDR *)& clientService, sizeof(clientService));
if (iResult == SOCKET_ERROR)
{
cout << "Error" << endl;
return 0;
}
SendPOSTMessage(ConnectSocket);
cin.get();
cin.get();
}
For some reason, I'm not getting anything back...
I tried getting the IP of this website :
http://convert2mp3.net/index.php?p=home and using cmd, it told me it's http://87.98.245.77/ but it doesn't load in my browser... Maybe this is my error?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Your data is invalid. Each HTTP header needs to be terminated by \r\n, and you need another one after the last line of headers. And you're sending a Content-length of 80 but no content.
Further notes:
If send() returns a positive integer, calling WSAGetLastError() is meaningless. There has been no error, so what you will get is undefined. You should check for -1. In practice send() won't return a short count unless you're in non-blocking mode.
NULL is not a correct fourth parameter for send() or recv(), but 0 is.
There is no such thing as a 'GET response'. There are just HTTP responses.

Answer 2

Problem (at least one) is in this part of code:
void getGETMessage(SOCKET s)
{
char *data = new char[2000];
recv(s, data, strlen(data), NULL);
int x = 3;
}
You didn't initialized data, so, there may be any symbols, so strlen(data) may return 0, if first symbol will be '\0', or something else, depends on when '\0' will appears.
Try to change strlen to sizeof.
Something like that:
void getGETMessage(SOCKET s)
{
char data[2000] = {0};
recv(s, data, sizeof(data)-1, NULL);
cout << data << endl;
int x = 3;
}

Answer 3

Based on your code, you're only sending the header information. You specify a Content-Length of 80, but you're not sending any data. Therefore, the server is still waiting on the data and is not sending a response back to you yet.
My suggestion would be to utilize some HTTP library rather than attempt to perform all the low-level functionality yourself. Some suggestions are in this Stack Overflow question.