Doesn't matter if you use a wrapper around Winsock or Winsock itself. It sounds to me that you have to implement a subset of the HTTP protocol.

To do this you have to get really familiar with the protocol internals. This can be done by reading the HTTP RFC's: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/Specs.html.

Since you don't need anything complicated I suggest going with HTTP/1.0. You can find the spec in RFC 1945.

Basically this is what you have to do.
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