I'm reading a book about programming, and I want to check an HTTP response message. The book is instructing me
to telnet into your favorite Web server. Then type in a one-line request message for some object that is housed on the server: for example:
telnet cis.poly.edu 80
GET /~hello/ HTTP/1.1
Host: cis.poly.eduWhat am I supposed to do, exactly? What program do I need? Where do I need to type this message?
34 Answers
You can use telnet by opening a terminal and running the command you posted above.
If you are a windows user you go to start -> run then type cmd and hit enter. Once it opens you can type in the command and hit enter.
If you are running a Mac OS, some form Linux, or another operating system you would have to find the terminal and run it from there.
You could also use a client such as putty.
Hope that helps.
1You need the telnet program, this is included by default in all Windows versions until Vista. If you are on Windows 7 you need to activate telnet.
If you are using windows, go to command prompt and type that information. If you are using linux, you should be able to type those commands at command line as well.
Edit for windows: To get to command line, you can click on Start button, click on Run, and type cmd then press enter, or you can hold down windows key (the one with windows logo) and press R, then type in cmd in the new dialog that pops up then press enter.
If you don't want to use built in telnet program, you can go here and download putty, a very powerful telnet client:
telnet cis.poly.edu 80
The above command depicts you connecting your websever through tcp protocol on the port 80 (where your webserver running port) using telnet client service from your machine. Basically telnet client is available in all Windows / Linux machine or you need to enable /install on those OSes.
Telnet server service is another part, where it accepts tcp connection to 22 port (usually), when it is installed on the server machine.
