-- Originally posted on my old wiki at Biffengineering.com
Found this cool scripting trick on a website. It requires an option to be set when compiling bash....will fill in that info later.

$ exec 4<>/dev/tcp/www.gnu.org/80
$ echo -e 'GET /software/bash/bash.html HTTP/1.1\nhost: www.gnu.org\nConnection: close\n\n'>&4
$ cat<&4
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:42:08 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.55
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 3081
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

<webpage code here>

$