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>> Could anybody explain to me how you'd go about querying a http server
>> and getting a response? Even retrieve a specific file?
>
>If you want this functionality handed to you on a silver platter (with
>source code of course), see the Ada Web Server (aws) at
>http://libre.act-europe.fr/aws/main.html.
  I understood the OP to want an HTTP client, not an HTTP server.  AWS is
indeed a server with all the goodies.  If he just wants to see the basics,
or to make a specialized, simple, custom server, Smplsrvr is one of the
demo programs with the $0, source included, intro version of Claw
(downloadable from www.rrsoftware.com).