对于这个答案，我参考了Software_Developer的答案。通过重新构建代码，我发现一些部分已弃用(gethostbyname())或不为操作提供错误处理(创建套接字，发送一些东西)。

下面的windows代码是用Visual Studio 2013和windows 8.1 64位以及windows 7 64位进行测试的。它将目标与www.google.com的Web服务器的IPv4 TCP连接。

#include <winsock2.h>
#include <WS2tcpip.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
#pragma comment(lib,"ws2_32.lib")
using namespace std;
    int main (){
    // Initialize Dependencies to the Windows Socket.
    WSADATA wsaData;
    if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsaData) != 0) {
        cout << "WSAStartup failed.\n";
        system("pause");
        return -1;
    }

    // We first prepare some "hints" for the "getaddrinfo" function
    // to tell it, that we are looking for a IPv4 TCP Connection.
    struct addrinfo hints;
    ZeroMemory(&hints, sizeof(hints));
    hints.ai_family = AF_INET;          // We are targeting IPv4
    hints.ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP;    // We are targeting TCP
    hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;    // We are targeting TCP so its SOCK_STREAM

    // Aquiring of the IPv4 address of a host using the newer
    // "getaddrinfo" function which outdated "gethostbyname".
    // It will search for IPv4 addresses using the TCP-Protocol.
    struct addrinfo* targetAdressInfo = NULL;
    DWORD getAddrRes = getaddrinfo("www.google.com", NULL, &hints, &targetAdressInfo);
    if (getAddrRes != 0 || targetAdressInfo == NULL)
    {
        cout << "Could not resolve the Host Name" << endl;
        system("pause");
        WSACleanup();
        return -1;
    }

    // Create the Socket Address Informations, using IPv4
    // We dont have to take care of sin_zero, it is only used to extend the length of SOCKADDR_IN to the size of SOCKADDR
    SOCKADDR_IN sockAddr;
    sockAddr.sin_addr = ((struct sockaddr_in*) targetAdressInfo->ai_addr)->sin_addr;    // The IPv4 Address from the Address Resolution Result
    sockAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;  // IPv4
    sockAddr.sin_port = htons(80);  // HTTP Port: 80

    // We have to free the Address-Information from getaddrinfo again
    freeaddrinfo(targetAdressInfo);

    // Creation of a socket for the communication with the Web Server,
    // using IPv4 and the TCP-Protocol
    SOCKET webSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
    if (webSocket == INVALID_SOCKET)
    {
        cout << "Creation of the Socket Failed" << endl;
        system("pause");
        WSACleanup();
        return -1;
    }

    // Establishing a connection to the web Socket
    cout << "Connecting...\n";
    if(connect(webSocket, (SOCKADDR*)&sockAddr, sizeof(sockAddr)) != 0)
    {
        cout << "Could not connect";
        system("pause");
        closesocket(webSocket);
        WSACleanup();
        return -1;
    }
    cout << "Connected.\n";

    // Sending a HTTP-GET-Request to the Web Server
    const char* httpRequest = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n";
    int sentBytes = send(webSocket, httpRequest, strlen(httpRequest),0);
    if (sentBytes < strlen(httpRequest) || sentBytes == SOCKET_ERROR)
    {
        cout << "Could not send the request to the Server" << endl;
        system("pause");
        closesocket(webSocket);
        WSACleanup();
        return -1;
    }

    // Receiving and Displaying an answer from the Web Server
    char buffer[10000];
    ZeroMemory(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
    int dataLen;
    while ((dataLen = recv(webSocket, buffer, sizeof(buffer), 0) > 0))
    {
        int i = 0;
        while (buffer[i] >= 32 || buffer[i] == '\n' || buffer[i] == '\r') {
            cout << buffer[i];
            i += 1;
        }
    }

    // Cleaning up Windows Socket Dependencies
    closesocket(webSocket);
    WSACleanup();

    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

引用:

弃用gethostbyname

socket()的返回值

send()的返回值

HTTP协议非常简单，因此编写HTTP客户端非常简单。 这里有一个

https://github.com/pedro-vicente/lib_netsockets

它使用HTTP GET从web服务器检索文件，服务器和文件都是命令行参数。远程文件保存为本地副本。

声明:我是作者

检查http.cc https://github.com/pedro-vicente/lib_netsockets/blob/master/src/http.cc

int http_client_t::get(const char *path_remote_file)
{
  char buf_request[1024];

  //construct request message using class input parameters
  sprintf(buf_request, "GET %s HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: %s\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n", path_remote_file, m_server_ip.c_str());

  //send request, using built in tcp_client_t socket
  if (this->write_all(buf_request, (int)strlen(buf_request)) < 0)
  {
    return -1;
  }

编辑:编辑URL

这是我关于cURL的最小包装器，它能够以字符串的形式获取网页。例如，这对于单元测试很有用。它基本上是一个围绕C代码的RAII包装器。

在你的机器上安装libcurl libcurl-devel或等效的。

使用的例子:

CURLplusplus client;
string x = client.Get("http://google.com");
string y = client.Get("http://yahoo.com");

类的实现:

#include <curl/curl.h>


class CURLplusplus
{
private:
    CURL* curl;
    stringstream ss;
    long http_code;
public:
    CURLplusplus()
            : curl(curl_easy_init())
    , http_code(0)
    {

    }
    ~CURLplusplus()
    {
        if (curl) curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
    }
    std::string Get(const std::string& url)
    {
        CURLcode res;
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_data);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, this);

        ss.str("");
        http_code = 0;
        res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
        if (res != CURLE_OK)
        {
            throw std::runtime_error(curl_easy_strerror(res));
        }
        curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &http_code);
        return ss.str();
    }
    long GetHttpCode()
    {
        return http_code;
    }
private:
    static size_t write_data(void *buffer, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
    {
        return static_cast<CURLplusplus*>(userp)->Write(buffer,size,nmemb);
    }
    size_t Write(void *buffer, size_t size, size_t nmemb)
    {
        ss.write((const char*)buffer,size*nmemb);
        return size*nmemb;
    }
};

MS的CppRest SDK是我刚刚发现的，大约半小时后，我的第一个简单的web服务调用工作。相比之下，在这里提到的其他地方，我甚至无法安装任何东西，我不得不说，这是相当令人印象深刻的

https://github.com/microsoft/cpprestsdk

向下滚动，点击文档，然后点击入门教程，你将有一个简单的应用程序运行在任何时间。

虽然有点晚了。你可能更喜欢https://github.com/Taymindis/backcurl。

它允许你在移动c++开发上进行http调用。适合手机游戏开发

bcl::init(); // init when using

bcl::execute<std::string>([&](bcl::Request *req) {
    bcl::setOpts(req, CURLOPT_URL , "http://www.google.com",
             CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L,
             CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, &bcl::writeContentCallback,
             CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, req->dataPtr,
             CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0",
             CURLOPT_RANGE, "0-200000"
            );
}, [&](bcl::Response * resp) {
    std::string ret =  std::string(resp->getBody<std::string>()->c_str());
    printf("Sync === %s\n", ret.c_str());
});


bcl::cleanUp(); // clean up when no more using

如果您正在寻找在多个平台(Linux, Windows和Mac)支持的c++中的HTTP客户端库，以使用Restful web服务。您可以有以下选项。

QT网络库-允许应用程序发送网络请求并接收回复 c++ REST SDK -一个新兴的支持PPL的第三方HTTP库 Libcurl -它可能是本地世界中使用最多的http库之一。