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Simple Gopher Client with basic error handling

import socket, sys

port = 70
host = sys.argv[1]
filename = sys.argv[2]

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
try:
    s.connect((host, port))
except socket.gaierror, e:
    print "Error connecting to server: %s" % e
    sys.exit(1)

s.sendall(filename + "\r\n")

while 1:
    buf = s.recv(1024)
    if not len(buf):
        break
    sys.stdout.write(buf)








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