I think I previously had all the pieces required to do this, but only just figured out that it worked: Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$ exec 3<> /dev/tcp

I think I previously had all the pieces required to do this, but only just figured out that it worked: Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$ exec 3<> /dev/tcp/<website>/80 Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$ echo "GET / HTTP/1.0" >&3 Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$ echo "" >&3 Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$ cat <& 3 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:43:33 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:42 GMT ETag: "30525-0-472ed20537a80" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 0 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$