i wrote a simple socket client and for testing i tried to connect to a http server and send the http command 'GET / HTTP/1.1' but i get nothing back. i've looked through other post, and searched online, from everything i see it should work. here's the code:
Code:
target.sin_family = AF_INET;
target.sin_addr.s_addr = *((unsigned long *)host->h_addr);
sck = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
if (connect(sck, (SOCKADDR *)&target, sizeof(target)) == SOCKET_ERROR)
{
	cout << "error connecting to target" << endl;
	closesocket(sck);
	WSACleanup();
	return 0;
}
char outBuff[BUF_SIZE];
char inBuff[BUF_SIZE];
int bytes_recv;
do
{
	cout << "->";
	cin.getline(outBuff, BUF_SIZE-2);
	if (strcmp(outBuff, "quit")==0) break;
	strcat(outBuff, "\r\n");
	if (send(sck, outBuff, strlen(outBuff), 0))
	{
		cout << "send successful" << endl;
		bytes_recv = recv(sck, inBuff, BUF_SIZE, 0);
		if (bytes_recv != 0 && bytes_recv != SOCKET_ERROR)
		{
		      cout << inBuff << endl;
		}
	}
	memset(outBuff, 0, BUF_SIZE);
	memset(inBuff, 0, BUF_SIZE);
} while (true);
closesocket(sck);
WSACleanup();