Question

I would like to be able to construct a raw HTTP request and send it with a socket. Obviously, you would like me to use something like urllib and urllib2 but I do not want to use that.

It would have to look something like this:

import socket

tcpsoc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
tcpsoc.bind(('72.14.192.58', 80)) #bind to googles ip
tcpsoc.send('HTTP REQUEST')
response = tcpsoc.recv()

Obviously you would also have to request the page/file and get and post parameters

Answer 1

Most of what you need to know is in the HTTP/1.1 spec, which you should definitely study if you want to roll your own HTTP implementation: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html