this is a tiny (and dumb, in a way) HTTP client written in pure C.
compile with gcc like gcc -Wall httpc.c -o httpc or run directly with tcc: tcc -Wall -run httpc.c
then pass the URL (without the protocol - http://)!
$ tcc -Wall -run httpc.c nohttps-files.mitchy.xyz/test.txt
parsed host='nohttps-files.mitchy.xyz' port='80' path='/test.txt'
trying '173.212.254.236' port 80...
connected!
> GET /test.txt HTTP/1.1
> Host: nohttps-files.mitchy.xyz
> Accept: */*
> Connection: close
>
> [end of request headers]
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 13
* got Content-Length=13
< Etag: "rfs94qd"
< Last-Modified: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:53:14 GMT
< Server: Caddy
< Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:32:15 GMT
< Connection: close
<
< [end of response headers]
hello world!
* closing because of Content-Length