How to connect using sockets

[ForeverCode]

Alright, I'm having problems connecting to servers with my sockets. I'm using regular sockets and I can only connect to IPs. So, how would I resolve the IP for say "

http://www.google.com"

I really dont feel like writting a DNS client cause I know it Isn't necissary. here's what I'm doing:

SOCKET Connecter;

sockaddr_in Addrs;
Connecter = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
Addrs.sin_family = AF_INET;
Addrs.sin_port = htons(80);
Addrs.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("forevercode.cjb.net"

connect(Connecter,(LPSOCKADDR)&Addrs, sizeof(Addrs));

Sleep(100);
send(Connecter, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost:

http://www.forevercode.cjb.net\r\n\r\n",

55, 0);

I know inet_addr(); is only for dotted IPs, but I dont know what else to do.

-Micah

 

[qednick]

Read up on the [tt]gethostbyname[/tt] function - that should help.

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[ForeverCode]

yeah, I just got it I dont know why I didnt think of gethostbyname(); duh.

If anyone is wondering how its done:

struct hostent *host;
host = gethostbyname("

http://www.forevercode.cjb.net";

struct sockaddr_in Addrs;
Connect = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
Addrs.sin_family = AF_INET;
Addrs.sin_port = htons(80);
Addrs.sin_addr = *(struct in_addr*)host->h_addr;

connect(Connect,(LPSOCKADDR)&Addrs, sizeof(Addrs));