Learning AWK Programming

Reading a web page using HttpService

To read a web page, we use the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP ) service which runs on port number 80. First, we redefine the record separators RS and ORS because HTTP requires CR-LF to separate lines. The program requests to the IP address 35.164.82.168 ( www.grymoire.com ) of a static website which, in turn, makes a GET request to the web page: http://35.164.82.168/Unix/donate.html . HTTP calls the GET request, a method which tells the web server to transmit the web page donate.html. The output is stored in the getline function using the co-process operator and printed on the screen, line by line, using the while loop. Finally, we close the http service connection. The following is the program to retrieve ...