If this were Java, we'd skip this step --#-- Next, we'll need a way to build the request header. Remember, Pete.java just printed a few strings. But this is C, so we'll have to devote some time to getting everything ready to go. At the top of a new file, let's put the server action we're going to call, and all the parameters. That way, we can change them more easily.
(Better yet, put them in a text config file and read them in on program start-up. That way you don't need to re-compile. But that's an exercise I'll leave to you.)


#include 

const char *action = "/darkspell/cgi-bin/secure.cgi";

char *params[] = {
		"name=John Byrd",
		"game=Java One",
		"job=Java Two and Three",
		"monkey=Perl",
		"what=this and that"
};

We'll also be sending at least three header lines in every request, so we'll define part of one and all of two of them in one string:


const char *headerStuff = "HTTP/1.0\r\nContent-type: application/x-www-form-urlencode\r\nContent-length: ";

Note that lines are delimited by "\r\n". This is according to Internet RFC 1945, which defines the HTTP protocol.

There's no reason you can't stuff other header lines in here if you want, User-agent, for instance.