Need help in HTTPrequest/response for a web server application

[andygbc]

Currently i am developing a web server application in console. I am using a browser to connect to the host running this application. The server is able to receive the http request from the browser. The problem come in, what should i send in response? Below is a response i write but the browser did not display anything at all. What is wrong here?can anyone help me?

strcpy(szBuf, "HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error \nDate: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:59:59 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 219"

if (send(s,szBuf,strlen(szBuf),0) == SOCKET_ERROR)
{
closesocket(s);
}

 

[apatterno]

First of all, in your response you need more newlines, i.e.

"HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error \nDate: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:59:59 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 219"

should become

"HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error\nDate: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:59:59 GMT\nContent-Type: text/html\nContent-Length: 219"


Another thing. Why do you have Content-type: text/html and Content-length: 219? It appears to me that you aren't sending any entity at all, just the headers. If you send just the headers (without any content-type or content-length specified), most browsers will generate an error message for the user to the see (for example, Internet Explorer says "This page cannot be displayed&quot

Now I don't know about you but that date looks wrong too.

Good luck.


[sub]I REALLY hope that helps.[/sub]
Will

 

[andygbc]

I have tried using the way you said but it still does not have any effect on the client browser? what is the problem?

I have tried this:
"HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error\nDate: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:59:59 GMT\nContent-Type: text/html\nContent-Length: 219"

And this:
"HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error\n"

The browser only said page cannot be display.Should it display a server Error msg? The reason why i add the content type and length is because i wanted to send a html file back but now i doing a test try on the error message first. Is the date and time send important? can anyone help on the error msg first?