Trying to download a binary file from HTTP server

[Jason2gs]

Zaita, about the same. Not grabbing/writing all of the data.

Quant, can you please reword that? I'm not quite sure what you're asking.

[bnbertha]

I would try something like this for your receive loop if you're still getting partial data

    char *data = response;
    int num_tries = 0;
    bool exit_loop = false;

    while(!exit_loop)
    {
        r = recv(sockfd, buffer, 128, 0);
        if (r > 0)
        {
            memcpy(data, buffer, r);
            data += r;
            memset(buffer, NULL, 128);
            num_tries = 0;
            printf("Received data - Buffer size: %d, Total response size: %d\r\n",
                      r, sizeof(data - response));
        }
        else if (num_tries == 4)
        {
            exit_loop = true;
            printf("Timeout reached, no more data\n");
        }
        else
        {
            num_tries++;
            sleep(1);
            printf("No data read on attempt %d\n", num_tries);
        }
 
 
    }

In answer to your question

Also, what's the difference between sizeof() and size_t()? and why don't they return the true string lengths?

in (usually) /usr/include/sys/types.h:

typedef ulong_t size_t;         /* size of something in bytes */
...
typedef uint_t  size_t;         /* (historical version) */
...
typedef long    ssize_t;        /* size of something in bytes or -1 */
...
typedef int     ssize_t;        /* (historical version) */

sizeof() I think relies on the original allocated size if you're passing it char arrays as opposed to strlen() which looks for the null terminator

[quant]

Jason2gs, sorry. I'm quite forget about a pthread_create. I listen sample below...

void *squirtIt(char *hName);
char letsGetStarted[128];
int main(int argc, char **argv){
        int num_connect;
        int ret;
        pthread_t tid[35];
        sprintf(letsGetStarted, "GET / HTTP/1.0\n");
        if (argc != 2){
                fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <host name> \n", argv[0]);
                exit(1);
        }
        for(num_connect = 0; num_connect < 35; num_connect++){
                ret = pthread_create(&tid[num_connect], NULL, (void *)squirtIt,argv[1]);
        }
        for(num_connect = 0; num_connect < 35; num_connect++){
                pthread_join(tid[num_connect], NULL);
        }
 return 0;
}