On 10/10/14 14:50, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
% telnet -4 www.bt.com 80
Trying 62.239.186.73...
Connected to www.bt.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /
Connection closed by foreign host.
Whatever load balancer that is, it needs an upgrade and understand g’ol HTTP
0.9 as well in addition to IPv6 ;-)
In fairness, I've run into a lot of actual, real-life webserver code
(usually Java Servlet based cough Oracle cough) that requires, at
minimum, a Host: and Accept: header. Annoying, but I guess...
However as another person points out, this fails with real, browser,
HTTP requests. The "nc" was just a convenient way of showing it ;o)
