Ravilj

Hi got a project that needs to be done and not to sure how to tackle it. The project states write a program to calculate how long it takes for a random web-page to load. Than I need to log the data and such... Now dont worry bout the random url i can easily slap together something for that. What I really need help with is retrieving the URL. I would prefer to do this using console rather since I am completely at home with it. Thats if it is possilbe.

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Ashcroft

I'd use wget, works on unix and windows, and has tons of options. If it is a programming assignment that requires you write the network code yourself I'd suggest a network programming tutorial or a copy of "Unix Network Programming" by Richard Stevens.

Ravilj

its for a probabalistics course so they really interested in the time rather than the code but it still needs to be coded :/

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Ashcroft

Depending on how much programming is actually required by the assignment I'd suggest on of the following:

1) A shell script driving wget
2) A simply C program driving wget
-Use 'popen' to run program and read the time results
3) A simple C or perl program using existing one of the http libraries available. http://www.w3.org/Library/.
4) A simple C socket program that resolves the destination, starts a timer, connects and downloads, ends timer. Using raw socket and resolver code.
-Simple code to do this can be found at http://pont.net/socket/prog/tcpClient.c

Ravilj

Thansk Ashcroft, will look into it.

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