Question: I'm sick of this. ALWAYS when I make a HTTP GET query from a C/C++ program using just plain sockets I get 301 Moved Permanently's. Normally I'd use libcURL, but in this case I don't want to add another library, I just need to download one flat identification file from one fixed server.

This is my current query:

```
GET /game/getversion.jsp?user=nightcracker&password=yeahright&version=12 HTTP/1.1\r\n
Connection: close\r\n
Host: www.minecraft.net\r\n
Accept-Encoding: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2\r\n
\r\n

```

I have tried EVERYTHING, and everything just gets answered with this funny message:

```
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/0.6.32
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:18:11 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 185
Connection: close
Location: http://www.minecraft.net/game/getversion.jsp?user=nightcracker&password=yeahright&version=12

<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/0.6.32</center>
</body>
</html>

```

I remember this issue from before and I ragequitted before. Now I want to fix this damn bugger. So tell me SO, why do all my HTTP queries always give back a 301?

Answer: 
Alright, besides the issue with the Accept-Encoding, the query was fine. The problem was that I resolved in my socket code to "minecraft.net" instead of "www.minecraft.net". RAAAAH. Fixed.
You can either specify the correct URL ([www.minecraft.net](http://www.minecraft.net)) or tell libcurl to follow redirects automatically:

```cpp
curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);

```