Manipulate Bash sockets using /dev/tcp

Don't have telnet or netcat handy for making a socket connection? Most Linux distros - not likely Debian - have this functionality built directly into Bash. The following will pull my site's index source on port 80, replace with any URL.

#!/bin/bash

exec 3<>/dev/tcp/kinqpinz.info/80

echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\nHost: kinqpinz.info;\nConnection: close\n\n">&3

cat <&3