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Asked: 2026-05-10T20:25:04+00:00

I’m having trouble sending out a simple HTTP request using Actionscript 3’s Socket() object.

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I’m having trouble sending out a simple HTTP request using Actionscript 3’s Socket() object. My onConnect listener is below:

function sConnect(e:Event):void {     trace('connected');     s.writeUTFBytes('GET /outernet/client/rss/reddit-feeds HTTP/1.1\r\n');     s.writeUTFBytes('Host: 208.43.71.50:8080\r\n');     s.writeUTFBytes('Connection: Keep-alive\r\n');     s.flush(); }

Using a packet sniffer, I can see the request does indeed get sent to the server, but the packet sniffer doesn’t identify the protocol as HTTP like it does with other HTTP services. When I run this, the server just eventually disconnects me. I have tried to connect to other simple Apache Servers and just get a malformed request error.

What am I missing here?

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  1. You have to write another ‘\r\n’ to the stream before the flush to tell the HTTP server that you’re finished sending the headers.

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