Have you had experience working with the HTTP protocol over sockets?

Yes, experience with the HTTP protocol via sockets in Python involves using the socket module to create a TCP connection and manually send HTTP requests and handle responses. This is useful for understanding the low-level workings of HTTP without using high-level libraries.

Example of a simple HTTP GET request via sockets:

import socket

host = 'example.com'
port = 80

request = f"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: {host}\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"

with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
    s.connect((host, port))
    s.sendall(request.encode())
    response = b''
    while True:
        data = s.recv(4096)
        if not data:
            break
        response += data

print(response.decode())

This approach allows you to independently parse HTTP headers and the response body, which is useful for a deep understanding of the protocol.