Something weird with the network connection?: lj_dev

Something weird with the network connection?

I'm encountering something rather strange...and I imagine it has to do with the LJ webservers. A while back, in an effort to learn basic network programming (in C), I wrote a little utility that'd get a single webpage and print it to stdout. I tried it on twenty URLs that I go to all the time "http://www.livejournal.com" among them, and it worked like a charm.

I basically do all the stuff to open a socket, then do this:


/* SNIP resolving address and opening a socket to sockfd */
socketf = fdopen(sockfd, "r+");
fprintf(socketf, "GET http://%s/%s\n\n", domain, path);
while ( (inChar = fgetc(socketf)) != EOF ) {
           putchar(inChar);
}

Now, when I try and go add the network stuff to my client's code, it acts weird...I figure, "Hey! Let's go use the htmlgetter again, see if it works." It doesn't. It just sits there for about 5 minutes, and then exits quietly. The code is ripe with error checking. It, does, in fact work for all of the non LJ URL's I've tried (a few on my server, google, etc). Any suggestions?

Something weird with the network connection?

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