accesing socket at a lower level?

[Z 3 Penguin]

Cedric Adjih wrote in message <8g0ool$q09$3 at ites.inria.fr>...
>Z 3 Penguin <z3penguin at penguinpowered.com> wrote:
>> I am working on writing python code to access the AIM servers.  i have
been
>> looking at what my code sends out, and using something like
>
>> from socket import +ACo-
>> s+AD0-socket(AF+AF8-INET,SOCK+AF8-STREAM)
>> s.send(whateverstring)
>
>  Assuming the missing "s.connect(hostname, port)"
>(or "s.connect((hostname, port))"), your code looks correct.

Oops.
>
>> tacks on some extra bytes at the beggining.  this confuses the AIM
servers.
>> Any ideas? (Note: I am not good with C and am against having to write
this
>> in C)
>
>Hmm... What told you there were some extra bytes at the beginning?
TCPDump Log.
>
>Are you sure:
>- AIM servers use TCP?
Yes
>- Python client is the problem?
Yes, because other AIM clients work fine.
>- Python socket C code is properly working?
Yeah, tryed it under both 1.5.2 (latest debian package) and 1.6a2 (tarball)
>  (maybe try test_socket.py in somewhere in the library of Python
>  -- /usr/lib/python1.5/test/test_socket.py or whatever -- or try
>  one of the socker examples).

Also, tryed

from socket import *
s=socket(AF_INET,SOCKET_RAW)
Traceback
socket.error: (93, 'Protocol not supported')

under 1.6a2
Hmmm.
-P
>
>-- Cedric