Martin Glazer wrote: > I'm completely baffled by this.... > >>From my workstation (Gentoo/KDE), I cannot access some websites > (www.contribs.org being the main one I need). The request goes out but then I > don't receive anything in response and eventually the browser times out. > > I have tried with Konqueror, FireFox and even telnetted to port 80 - > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet contribs.org 80 > Trying 216.17.211.37... > Connected to contribs.org. > Escape character is '^]'. > GET HTTP/1.1 >
Well, you've got your HTTP dialogue wrong there. It should look a bit more like: $ telnet contribs.org 80 ... GET / HTTP/1.0 Host: contribs.org And then hit enter again after the "Host:" line. That may be a red herring but I figured it should be pointed out. (Note: HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 should both have the host header. -- William Astle finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further information Geek Code V3.12: GCS/M/S d- s+:+ !a C++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ !E W++ !N w--- !D !M PS PE V-- Y+ PGP t+@ 5++ X !R tv+@ b+++@ !DI D? G e++ h+ y? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
