Code:
alias sockettest {
  sockopen toplist sports.yahoo.com 80
}
on *:SOCKOPEN:toplist: {
  sockwrite -nt $sockname GET /mlb/scoreboard
  sockwrite -nt $sockname HOST: yahoo.com 
  sockwrite -nt $sockname Accept-Language: en-us
  sockwrite -nt $sockname User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT)
}
on *:SOCKREAD:toplist: {
  if ($sockerr) {
    echo -s SockError $sockname $sockerr
    return
  }
  else {
    var %temptext
    sockread %temptext
    echo -a %temptext
  }
}


This one and the one above both work perfectly well for me.