Say you want to request a webpage… Normally, one would use a web browser, right? But sometimes you just need to see what is really going on… In this blog post I will show the basics of using the telnet command to work with the HTTP protocol. For reference: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html Most of these commands were [...]
Archive for January 23rd, 2009
Basics of telnet and HTTP
Posted in Engineering, Technique, tagged Apache, HTTP, Python, telnet on January 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »