Creating sockets to raise a HTTP request.

Sockets.cs

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;

namespace dotNetPlayGround
{
    class Sockets
    {
        static Socket s = null;
        const string TEXT = "GET /transformer.html HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost:8080\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n";
        static Sockets()
        {
            IPHostEntry localhost = Dns.GetHostEntry("localhost");
            IPAddress address = localhost.AddressList[0];
            IPEndPoint endpoint = new IPEndPoint(address, 8080);
            s = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
            s.Connect(endpoint);
        }
        
        static void Main()
        {
            NetworkStream ns = new NetworkStream(s,FileAccess.ReadWrite,true);
            ns.Write(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(TEXT),0,System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetByteCount(TEXT));
            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            ns.Read(buffer,0,buffer.Length);
            Console.WriteLine(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer));
        }
        static void UsingSocketSend()
        {

            s.Send(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(TEXT));
            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            s.Receive(buffer);
            Console.WriteLine(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer)); 
        }
    }
}