How to connect to a website?

[MRAB]

On 22/04/2013 17:16, webmaster at terradon.nl wrote:
> Hi,
> i just try to connect to a website, read that page and display the rules get from it.
> Then i get this error message:
>
>    File "D:/Python/Py projects/socket test/sockettest.py", line 21, in <module>
>      fileobj.write("GET "+filename+" HTTP/1.0\n\n")
> io.UnsupportedOperation: not writable
>
> My code:
>
> # import sys for handling command line argument
> # import socket for network communications
> import sys, socket
>
> # hard-wire the port number for safety's sake
> # then take the names of the host and file from the command line
> port = 80
> host = 'www.xxxxxxxx.nl'
> filename = 'index.php'
>
> # create a socket object called 'c'
> c = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>
> # connect to the socket
> c.connect((host, port))
>
> # create a file-like object to read
> fileobj = c.makefile('r', 1024)

You're creating a file-like object for reading...
>
> # Ask the server for the file
> fileobj.write("GET "+filename+" HTTP/1.0\n\n")
>
...and then trying to write to it.

> # read the lines of the file object into a buffer, buff
> buff = fileobj.readlines()
>
> # step through the buffer, printing each line
> for line in buff:
>      print (line)
>
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