You can run telnet from a DOS prompt by entering telnet <hostname or server>
on the command line.
Regards,
Tom Wilson
-----Original Message-----
From: Sally [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:51 AM
To: Timothy Kimball; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Telnet
Are you assuming I'm running from unix? I'm not I run on windows
-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy Kimball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 14 June 2001 16:46
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Telnet
Derek Harding wrote:
: ... I'm not
: sure that telnet is defunct, though. Is it?
No, it's not. "Defunct" means it no longer exists. Telnet is very definitely
alive and well. Though it is insecure for general communications, since it
talks directly to any port, it's very handy for debugging web transactions:
% telnet www.perl.org 80 <= you type this in
Trying 209.85.157.220...
Connected to onion.valueclick.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0 <= you type this in (with two
newlines)
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:43:50 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
%
(hint: replace HEAD with GET).
-- tdk
