import socket mysock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) mysock.connect(('data.pr4e.org', 80)) cmd = 'GET http://data.pr4e.org/romeo.txt HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n'.encode() mysock.send(cmd) while True: data = mysock.recv(512) if len(data) < 1: break print(data.decode(),end='') mysock.close()