questa è la versione con i socket

codice:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>

#define PORT 80 // the port of httpd servers 

#define MAXDATASIZE 100 // max number of bytes we can get at once 

int main ( int argc, char *argv[] )
{

	int sockfd, numbytes;  

	char buf[MAXDATASIZE];

	struct hostent *he;
	struct sockaddr_in their_addr; // connector's address information 

	if (argc != 2) {
	    fprintf(stderr,"usage: server hostname\n");
	    exit(1);
	}

	if ((he=gethostbyname(argv[1])) == NULL) {  // get the host info 
	    perror("gethostbyname");
	    exit(1);
	}

	if ((sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) == -1) {
	    perror("socket");
	    exit(1);
	}

	their_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;    // host byte order 
	their_addr.sin_port = htons(PORT);  // short, network byte order 
	their_addr.sin_addr = *((struct in_addr *)he->h_addr);
	memset(their_addr.sin_zero, '\0', sizeof their_addr.sin_zero);

	if (connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&their_addr, sizeof their_addr) == -1) {
	    perror("connect");
	    exit(1);
	}

	
	char * request = "GET / HTTP/1.1\n";
	if ((numbytes=send (sockfd, request, strlen( request ), 0)) == -1) {
	    perror("send");
	    exit(1);
	}


	char *host = "Host:www.repubblica.it\n\n";
	if ( ( numbytes=send (sockfd, host, strlen(host), 0)) == -1 ) {
	    perror("send");
	    exit(1);
	}


	do {

		if ((numbytes=recv(sockfd, buf, MAXDATASIZE - 1, 0)) == -1) {
		    perror("recv");
		    exit(1);
		}

		if ( numbytes <= 0 ) break;
		buf[numbytes] = '\0';

		printf(buf);

	} while ( 1 ) ;

	close(sockfd);
	printf("\n");

	return 0;
}
è impostato su repubblica.it
lo compili con
$gcc nome_file
e lo lanci con
./a.out www.repubblica.it

poi lo adatti alle tue necessità

ciao
sergio