Winsock Question... Pretty Simple

I have a quick question. I am fairly new using the winsock API and I was curious how I would go about downloading a file off some specific server. Lets say I was given the exact URL of the file. How would I go about downloading that file?

I already specified the port, and the server that it is located using:

::... Assume Winsock has already been initialized...::

// Store information about the server
LPHOSTENT hostEntry;
hostEntry = gethostbyname("www.microsoft.com");


// Create the socket
SOCKET theSocket;
theSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);


SOCKADDR_IN serverInfo; // Create new Socket Object
serverInfo.sin_family = AF_INET; // Specify TCP protocol
serverInfo.sin_addr = *((LPIN_ADDR)*hostEntry->h_addr_list);
serverInfo.sin_port = htons(80); // Specify Port

// Connect to the server
nret = connect( theSocket,
(LPSOCKADDR)&serverInfo,
sizeof(struct sockaddr));

::.. okay, I am now connected to microsoft using port 80..::
As a test, lets say I wanted to download their startup page...

"index.html"

How would I go about doing that?

Thanks for the help
-Jon

Not sure from your posting, why you are creating a socket at port 80 for file transfering.

You can create/connect a socket with standard port FTP (port 21), and issue GET/PUT for file transfering!

I wanted to use port 80 to emulate an http client. I am able to start downloading the default file ( "index.html ? index.htm ") using this:

::.. Recieving Module ..::

ofstream outfile;
outfile.open("c:\\temp.html");

char aa[1000];

strcpy(aa,"GET / \r\n");
strcat(aa,"HTTP 1.0 \r\n\r\n");
send(theSocket,aa,sizeof(aa),0);

int temp = 1;

while( temp != 0){
nret = recv(theSocket, aa, 1000, 0);
WriteToFile(aa); // Copies the aa string into the file
}

outfile.close();

::.. ..

but for some reason, it will keep recieving the bit stream and
never stop. The file will continuously growing till 400+ megs, and If I check the contents of the file, the html code has been copied many times. Is that because of my while loop condition?

Thanks

-Jon