Download text-file

[dabo]

I have finally solved it . This is the solution:

Instead of using this request:

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const char request[] = "GET /text.txt HTTP/1.1\r\n"
"\r\n";
I used this:

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const char request[] = "GET /text.txt HTTP/1.1\r\n"
"Host: www.dabostudios.net\r\n"
"\r\n";
I dont know why that host row made the difference I'm just happy it works.

You always need to specify host name because for a same ip you can have 4395 sites on that ip so the server need to know wich one you want to see.

Exemple: SFML is on the IP 213.186.33.2 but if you past-it in your browser you will see the ovh webmail page. If you add the host field in your http header request with the name sfml-dev.org you will see sfml. (Firefox have alot of add-on to do that like tamper-data ou Modify headers or Http Lives Headers etc etc...

I see, thanks.

[WorldRacer]

Can anybody post the whole working code, because I'm too lazy now  to tinker the code snippets xD

[Laurent]

SFML now has a sf::Http class

[WorldRacer]

VERY BIG THANK, GUY!!!

Soluted the Problem this way:

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// Init HTTP Client
sf::Http Http;

// Set the Host
Http.SetHost("www.yourdomain.tld");

// Get the file
sf::Http::Response Response = Http.SendRequest(sf::Http::Request::Request(sf::Http::Request::Method::Get, "http://www.yourdomain.tld/dir/foo/bar.ext"));

// Save the downloaded text into a string
std::string Body = Response.GetBody();

// Save the file
FILE *fTextFile;
fTextFile = fopen("bar.ext", "w" );
fputs(Body.c_str(), fTextFile);
fclose(fTextFile);

^^Now the file is saved as bar.ext into the working directory of the project.