import socket import time s = socket.socket() print "Connecting..." s.connect(("127.0.0.1", 8082)) time.sleep(0.1) print "Writing..." s.send("GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n") while True: print "Reading..." r = s.recv(4096) if r == "": print "Read 0 bytes; closing." s.close() break print "Read: %s" % (repr(r), )