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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Adafruit Industries
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+import board
+from digitalio import DigitalInOut
+from adafruit_esp32spi import adafruit_esp32spi
+import adafruit_esp32spi.adafruit_esp32spi_socket as socket
+import adafruit_requests as requests
+from secrets import secrets
+
+
+TIMEOUT = 5
+# edit host and port to match server
+HOST = "wifitest.adafruit.com"
+PORT = 80
+
+# PyPortal or similar; edit pins as needed
+spi = board.SPI()
+esp32_cs = DigitalInOut(board.ESP_CS)
+esp32_ready = DigitalInOut(board.ESP_BUSY)
+esp32_reset = DigitalInOut(board.ESP_RESET)
+esp = adafruit_esp32spi.ESP_SPIcontrol(spi, esp32_cs, esp32_ready, esp32_reset)
+
+# connect to wifi AP
+esp.connect(secrets)
+
+# test for connectivity to server
+print("Server ping:", esp.ping(HOST), "ms")
+
+# create the socket
+socket.set_interface(esp)
+socketaddr = socket.getaddrinfo(HOST, PORT)[0][4]
+s = socket.socket()
+s.settimeout(TIMEOUT)
+
+print("Connecting")
+s.connect(socketaddr)
+
+print("Sending")
+s.send(b"HEAD / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n")
+
+print("Receiving")
+print(s.recv(1024))