On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 03:08:43PM +0100, Tim Chown wrote: > On 10 Oct 2014, at 15:01, Phil Mayers <p.may...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > > > 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) > > Indeed, from a v6 capable browser on a v6 network, I get /sadface This web > page is not available.
Here, "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." (AS680) -is