Problem with Sockets

[shanoger]

Hello every one... i writing a simple program that would do a "GET" one a web site (in my case it is torrentz.eu). I get several problems:
1. the html dump with my code is not the same as what i see on the browser
2. how can i access or use the search text box, i mean how can i with a java code do some thing like search a movie name and retrieve results (by retrieve i mean see the result html page as per search)

here is my code

package getmethod;
// HTTP GET through socket, not through "URL" class
import HTTPstuff.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class Main
{

  public static void main ( String[] args )
  {
    getPage gt = new getPage();

    try
    {
        gt.getPageSourceCode();
    }

    catch (UnknownHostException e) {}
    catch (IOException e) {}



  }
}

I tried doing a get with the link that appears on the address bar of the browser after a do a search with the site (say torrentz.eu). I would really appreciate any help, thanks in advance...

[shanoger]

wow thats a lot of useful in the future information.... really no sarcasm i appreciate your effort in explaining various details of sockets and their use... i figured out the problem i had with my code , well i simply ditched the socket class and used the URL class which in turn was a lot easier to use. Not to say i didnt try fix what was wrong with the previous class, i did and the problem was with the header i sent along with the GET. Once again thank you for your help :).