Read web page content via Sockets

Question

Hey,
I have to write a program that will read web page content, using sockets.
I got that piece of code and it works for most pages:
Socket socket = new Socket(address, 80);
          BufferedReader input =
               new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
          PrintWriter output =
               new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), true);
          output.println("GET " + pageName);
          String response = "";
          String curline  = input.readLine();
          int i=1;
          while(curline != null){
             response += "\n" + curline;
               curline   = input.readLine();
               System.out.println(i + curline);
               ++i;
          output.close();
          input.close();but not for the one it is supposed to work:
http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/tlumacz.html
I could get it to work using this:
URL url = new URL(host + query);
URLConnection uc = url.openConnection();but I really have to use sockets.
Any advice, people? :-)

Answer 1

There's an RFC that goes over the HTTP protocol (or rather, several RFCs for the several versions of the protocol). You probably want to google for that and use it as a reference for this project.