Question

I am new to TCP/IP connection using python

I have this simple code:

import socket
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect(("www.google.com",80))
s.send("GET /\n")
while 1: 
 received = s.recv(1024) 
 if received: 
  print received

but when I run it it just runs forever and does not give me any result!!!

Could you please help me. Thanks

Answer 1

Follow HTTP Protocol

s.send("GET /\n")

This is not correct. You should send http data in a proper way. Use this

s.send("GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\n\r\n");

In fact you are to send standard http request headers.

GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.google.com

Note: As David says in the comment you must be able to decode chunked transfer coding. So its better you state HTTP/1.0 in the header.