newbie HTTP request problem

[Paul Brinich <pebrinic unity ncsu edu>]

  I have recently begun a programming project using GTK.  The purpose 
of this program is pretty simple, at least in would be for my in Win32. 
I want to have a program create an HTTP request to a remote server, the 
server returns an IP address which is then returned into the GUI and 
after useraction is formatted into a config file for the vtun program. I 
am not particulary familiar with the C++ libraries available on lniux 
systems, but is there something that I could use to make that HTTP 
request and return the data that is given by the remote server?  Any 
tips would be greatly appreciated, thanks!