Response codes and \r\n

[Catherine Heathcote]

Heya,
I am reading an XML file (code at the end if it helps) and all goes well 
except I am getting the http response code printed. So everything (hat 
works of course) has "200 OK" on the first line. Am I missing some 
simple  way of surprising this, or should I just delete the 1st line 
before playing with the content?

Also everything I get has "\r\n" in it, which atm I am getting rid of 
with strip(), is that the best way?

http://pastebin.com/m4120242

Thanks