Simple HTTP client using socket

http-client-socket.py

import socket

client_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
server_address = ('www.python.org', 80)
client_socket.connect(server_address)

request_header = 'GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: www.python.org\r\n\r\n'
client_socket.send(request_header)

response = ''
while True:
    recv = client_socket.recv(1024)
    if not recv:
        break
    response += recv 

print response
client_socket.close()    

Why is while True: needed when the socket receives packets?

Hi, @flowingwings. recv reads n amount of bytes from the connection. In order to make sure we get the whole message (that can, of course, be larger than 1024B) we call it until we get nothing which means we got the whole mesage.