diff --git a/cpp/client.cpp b/cpp/client.cpp
index c48b677..887c639 100644
--- a/cpp/client.cpp
+++ b/cpp/client.cpp
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ int main(int argc, char const *argv[])
     struct sockaddr_in address; 
     int sock = 0, valread; 
     struct sockaddr_in serv_addr; 
-    char *hello = "Hello from client"; 
+    char *hello = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n"
+                  "Host: localhost:8000\r\n"
+                  "Accept: */*\r\n"
+                  "\r\n"; 
     char buffer[1024] = {0}; 
     if ((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) 
     { 
@@ -41,4 +44,4 @@ int main(int argc, char const *argv[])
     valread = read( sock , buffer, 1024); 
     printf("%s\n",buffer ); 
     return 0; 
-} 
\ No newline at end of file
+}