bash function to download file from web without cURL/wget

_get.sh

#  Add this to your .bashrc 
# Use it like: you@console_>$ _get https://website.org/file.txt
_get ()
{
  IFS=/ read proto z host query <<< "$1"
  exec 3< /dev/tcp/$host/80
  {
    echo GET /$query HTTP/1.1
    echo connection: close
    echo host: $host
    echo
  } >&3 
  sed '1,/^$/d' <&3 > $(basename $1)
}

I love that folks are commenting on this gist 4 years later :-D