Re: [Nolug] Help please

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 18:55, pltaylor wrote:
> >>
> >>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

Never got to "Connected to www.google.com."?

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