Here is a very basic HTTP client that uses the dispatcher class to implement its socket handling:
import asyncore, socket class http_client(asyncore.dispatcher): def __init__(self, host, path): asyncore.dispatcher.__init__(self) self.create_socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) self.connect( (host, 80) ) self.buffer = 'GET %s HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n' % path def handle_connect(self): pass def handle_close(self): self.close() def handle_read(self): print self.recv(8192) def writable(self): return (len(self.buffer) > 0) def handle_write(self): sent = self.send(self.buffer) self.buffer = self.buffer[sent:] c = http_client('www.python.org', '/') asyncore.loop()