I am trying to run the attached code.  when hard-coding the string in the URL and doing .encode, then the code works.  However since i am requesting user input, i cannot hard-code and the code seem to add the 'b' character in the beginning causing the request to fail with output like this

Enter Hostname    :
hostname cannot be empty
Enter Port Number :
before invokingGET http://psglx73:24670/coreservices/DomainService HTTP/1.1


after encode
b'GET http://psglx73:24670/coreservices/DomainService HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n'
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 05:06:21 GMT
Connection: close
Server: Informatica

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i cannot pass without .encode to the socket communication.  is this reported problem ?