python socket GET

Question

From the other posts on stack overflow this should be working

import socket

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)                 

s.connec         


        

Answer 1

Your code is almost right, but you need to send 2 \r\n sequences to satisfy the HTTP protocol.

A valid GET request will look like this (note 2 lines):

GET / HTTP/1.1

So your code should be:

s.sendall('GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n')

Further to that, there are additional headers required for valid HTTP 1.1 requests, such as Host:. You need to add them to your request, something like this:

s.sendall('''GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: cnn.com

''')