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TCP/IP, UDP and Sockets

TCP gives reliable ordered streams; UDP sends fast, unreliable datagrams; sockets are the programming interface to both.

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import socket
with socket.create_connection(("example.com", 80), timeout=5) as s:
    s.sendall(b"HEAD / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n")
    print(s.recv(200))

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