More likely, you just need to change your sockwrite commands to send what you need to the site so it knows how to respond. Changing HTML 1.1 to 1.0 helps in some situations (or vice versa), or changing your encoding or what types of output the size can send you (eg. gzip). Basically, you can send exactly the same thing to the site with sockets as if you went there with a browser... you just need to know what to send.
