import socket import time HOST = 'data.pr4e.org' PORT = 80 mysock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) mysock.connect((HOST, PORT)) mysock.sendall(b'GET http://data.pr4e.org/cover3.jpg HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n') count = 0 picture = b"" while True: data = mysock.recv(5120) if len(data) < 1: break #time.sleep(0.25) count = count + len(data) print(len(data), count) picture = picture + data mysock.close() # Look for the end of the header (2 CRLF) pos = picture.find(b"\r\n\r\n") print('Header length', pos) print(picture[:pos].decode()) # Skip past the header and save the picture data picture = picture[pos+4:] fhand = open("stuff.jpg", "wb") fhand.write(picture) fhand.close()