Download a file over HTTP with Bash only?

Question

How would one go about downloading a file from the command line using Bash but not Wget or Curl?

Answer 1

download ()
{
  IFS=/ read gg hh <<< "$2"
  exec 3< /dev/tcp/$gg/80
  {
    echo GET /$hh HTTP/1.1
    echo connection: close
    echo host: $gg
    echo
  } >&3
  sed '1,/^$/d' <&3 > $1
}

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