#! /usr/bin/env python

import asyncore, socket, sys

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):
        a = self.recv(8192)
        if len(a):
			print len(a), ' ',
			sys.stdout.flush()

    def writable(self):
        return (len(self.buffer) > 0)

    def handle_write(self):
        sent = self.send(self.buffer)
        self.buffer = self.buffer[sent:]

a = dict((cl, cl) for cl in [http_client('www.python.org', '/') for _ in xrange(10)])

#asyncore.loop(timeout=0.1, use_poll=True, map=a) # always hangs up
#asyncore.loop(timeout=0.1, use_poll=True)        # works fine