I am trying to write a simple HTTP client program using raw sockets in Python 3. However, the server does not return a response despite having been sent a simple HTTP request. My question is why the server doesn't return a response.
Here is my code:
from socket import *
BUF_LEN = 8192 * 100000
info = getaddrinfo('google.com', 80, AF_INET)
addr = info[-1][-1]
print(addr)
client = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
client.connect(addr)
client.send(b"GET /index.html HTTP1.1\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\n")
print(client.recv(BUF_LEN).decode("utf-8")) # print nothing
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asked Jan 15, 2017 at 14:05
KiYugadgeter
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You've missed a blank line at the end and mis-specified the HTTP version without a slash:
>>> client.send(b"GET /index.html HTTP1.1\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\n")
Should be:
>>> client.send(b"GET /index.html HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\n\r\n")
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>>> client.recv(BUF_LEN).decode("utf-8")
u'HTTP/1.1 302 Found\r\nCache-Control: private\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\nLocation: http://www.google.co.uk/index.html?gfe_rd=cr&ei=fIR7WJ7QGejv8AeZzbWgCw\r\nContent-Length: 271\r\nDate: 2017年1月15日 14:17:32 GMT\r\n\r\n<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv....
The blank line tells the server its the end of the headers, and since this is a GET request there's no payload and so it can then return the content.
Without the / in the HTTP/1.1 spec Google's servers will return an Error: 400 Bad Request response.
answered Jan 15, 2017 at 14:18
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