Another connect() invalid argument C - c

Question

I am exploring network programming in C.The code is supposed to connect to a server on port 80 send an http request and from the response print on what server is the web page running on, but it runs into Invalid Argument error. The error occurs with error message "[ERR] connecting to target server: Invalid argument" so the error should be somewhere in the connect() function.
rec = connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&target_addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr) == -1);
if(rec == -1)
fail("[ERR] connecting to target server");
Although I have seen a lot of similar issues, none of the fixes neither worked or applied to this case, strangely this code works as a standalone program when parsing argc[1] instead of char *name, regardless of what the exact string literal is(ip or hostname, experimented with multiple for both). The only difference between the two being that the entire web server function is written in main and passed command-line arguments(working example) while here it is written as a standalone function and called in main where it was tested on a few web page names and IP addresses.
Any help would be appreciated as I feel this might be some simple mistake I overlooked or something I don't understand well enough. Thanks!
int web_server(char *name){
int sockfd, rec;
struct hostent *host_info;
//struct in_addr *address;
struct sockaddr_in target_addr;
unsigned char buffer[4096];
if(is_ip(name)){
target_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(name);
} else if(host_info = gethostbyname(name)){
if(host_info == NULL){
fail("[ERR] looking up hostname!");
}else{
target_addr.sin_addr = *((struct in_addr *) host_info -> h_addr);
}
} else{
fail("[ERR] getting address");
}
target_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
target_addr.sin_port = htons(80);
memset(&(target_addr.sin_zero), 0, 8);
sockfd = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if(sockfd == -1){
fail("[ERR] in socket");
}
rec = connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&target_addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr) == -1);
if(rec == -1)
fail("[ERR] connecting to target server");
send_string(sockfd, "HEAD / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n");
while(recv_line(sockfd, buffer)){
if(strncasecmp(buffer, "Server: ", 7) == 0){
printf("The web server for %s is %s\n", name, buffer+8);
}
}
close(sockfd);
printf("Server line not found\n");
exit(1);
}
int main(){
web_server("127.0.0.1");//doesn't work with hostnames either
}