checking if user is opening root entry point of the IP address on esp8266 webserver

Question

I am trying to open load a webpage from ESP8266 that displays temperature and humidity of my room if I only type root URL:192.168.1.89

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.1.89
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Safari/602.1.50
Accept-Language: en-us
DNT: 1
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

to do that in my esp8266 sketch I am trying this logic:

bool readRequest(WiFiClient& client) {
 bool currentLineIsBlank = true;
 while (client.connected()) {
 if (client.available()) {
 char c = client.read();
 if (c == "GET / HTTP/1.1"){
 Serial.println("Got root");
 client.println(handleRoot()); // where handle root contains web page
 }
 else{
 Serial.println("Did not got root.");
 }
 if (c == '\n' && currentLineIsBlank) {
 return true;
 } else if (c == '\n') {
 currentLineIsBlank = true;
 } else if (c != '\r') {
 currentLineIsBlank = false;
 }
 }
 }
 return false;
}

but the condition to check if it met GET / HTTP/1.1 never validates.

• user31481: c is a char. You can't compare a char to a string. And c == "GET... is not how you compare string in C, anyway.
• gre_gor: Just use a HTTP server library.
• Ciasto piekarz: @gre_gor in a different project I am using ESP8266WebServer but I want ed to give a try to WiFiServer server(80); while sticking with ArduinoJson.h library as well.
• Majenko: This applies to networking as well as serial. Also this may be of use to you, along with this.
• Ciasto piekarz: @gre_gor I switched back to ESP8266WebServer.h however I cannot pass ArduinoJson.h's jsonObject to server.send(...) arduino.stackexchange.com/q/46961/27363