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Is it possible to connect to a website via port 80 using Telnet?
I think I once saw someone do that, and I saw all the HTML, since there was no program to interpret it.
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Yep....
something like... telnet [hostname-here] 80 will do it (on the command line) where "Hostname-here" is the host to connect to (e.g. google.com, or 123.45.67.891)
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Great, I'm connected...but what is the proper command that I can enter to retrieve and view a file?
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It depends. If it is on Unix, try CAT or MORE.
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Hmm..no, that doesn't work - it dumps out the 501 method not implemented error HTML.
I heard something about issuing a proper GET command header - Not sure what that means, though.
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to retrieve a file or whatever... do this
GET / HTTP 1.1 [enter] [enter]
Remember to press enter twice after that. Also, the / is the filename... so if you want to get /files/game.zip then use /file/game.zip. Have fun.
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I don't think it let's you press enter twice - It immediately gives me the "400 Bad request" error HTML.
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Oops... Try this instead...
GET / HTTP/1.0 [enter] [enter]
Someone might have to correct me on the HTTP/1.0 part as that might be incorrect... it might be 1.1 instead...
Hope that works.
