I have created a simple HTTP server, (currently it supports only GET ) which returns an HTML page whenever a GET request is made , but the returned HTML page doesnt render in the browser, I verified that my server is indeed working using CURL and CURL is able to fetch the data . The code can be found below
Below is the output from the curl , you can see that the server is returning the HTML page.
$ curl -G "192.168.1.188:8080" --verbose
* Rebuilt URL to: 192.168.1.188:8080/
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 192.168.1.188...
* Connected to 192.168.1.188 (192.168.1.188) port 8080 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: 192.168.1.188:8080
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-type: text/html
<
< <!DOCTYPE html>
< <html>
< <head>
< <title>simple server</title>
< </head>
< <body>
< <h1>Welcome</h1>
< <p>Welcome to the server .</p>
< </body>
< </html>
* Connection #0 to host 192.168.1.188 left intact
Before sending the HTML page you need to send some headers to the browser. Sending just the content of the file is not enough. Check the structure of a response on the documentation https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Messages#HTTP_Responses
Try to access a page from working web-server, look for the headers structure in the browser (using the browser's development tools) and replicate that with your code.