code: def connect(self):
          
          sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
          if self.scheme == "https":
              sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock)
          sock.connect((socket.gethostbyname(self.host), self.port))
          return sock
docs: Returns an open connection (socket) to the Splunk instance.
  
          This method is used for writing bulk events to an index or similar tasks
          where the overhead of opening a connection multiple times would be
          prohibitive.
  
          :returns: A socket.
  
          **Example**::
  
              import splunklib.binding as binding
              c = binding.connect(...)
              socket = c.connect()
              socket.write("POST %s HTTP/1.1\\r\\n" % "some/path/to/post/to")
              socket.write("Host: %s:%s\\r\\n" % (c.host, c.port))
              socket.write("Accept-Encoding: identity\\r\\n")
              socket.write("Authorization: %s\\r\\n" % c.token)
              socket.write("X-Splunk-Input-Mode: Streaming\\r\\n")
              socket.write("\\r\\n")