Socket-GET-request

Connects to a server on a TCP socket and logs the server's response to an HTTP GET request that you send it via the socket. This program creates a socket and makes a GET request.

Whats here

• option_handler.h (An argumnet handeling tool from: https://github.com/ryngonzalez/OptionHandler)
• knock.cpp (Program use to create socket and make GET request)

Setup

To start clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/SeanFitz1997/Socket-GET-request.git

Then to compile the files enter

make

If there is and issues enter

make clean && make

Example

(GET request)

./knock -h www.tcd.ie -p 80 -f output.txt

This will send an HTTP GET request to the webpage www.tcd.ie at the socket listening at port 80 and will record the response to the file _[output.txt].
(Usage)

./knock -?
or
./knock -H

Parameters

Required:

• h, host: the DNS name or IP address of the host to contact
• p, port: the TCP port on the server to which to connect Optional:
• w, web: make an HTTP GET request for the "/" resource
• f, file: store any output received from socket in file
• H, help: produce a usage message such as that below
• ?, help: produce a usage message such as that below

Important

• The host input MUST be an IPv4 or IPv6 address or a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)
• The port MUST be an integer between 1 and 65535
• The mandatory parameters are the host and port.