Re: [Nolug] Help please

From: pltaylor <pltaylor_at_sstar.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:55:10 -0600
Message-ID: <406E0B6E.5090809@sstar.com>

>>
>>plt@chon:~$ telnet www.google.com 80
>>Trying 216.239.41.104...
>>plt@chon:~$
>>
>>waited a minute before giving up.
>
>
> You did it backwards.
>
> First you do "telnet www.google.com 80".
> Then you see:
> Trying 216.239.39.104...
> Connected to www.google.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> *Immediately* type "GET / HTTP/1.1" (no quotes, of course) and press
> <Enter> twice.
>
> You should see a bunch of html stream across the window.
>

did the telnet thing and it just hung there trying...
had to manually kill the connection
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