Telnet to Website - How is it meant to work?
- From: "William Robertson" <robertson.william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'[ISAserver.org Discussion List]'" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:42:39 +0200
Hi there
Often in troubleshooting comments are made to telnet into the problem
website on port 80 to see if everything is fine. My question though is what
am I supposed to see when I do this?
If I successfully telnet to a website I am simply faced with a blank screen.
If I press <ENTER> twice I then get the actual code for the error page. Here
is an excerpt.
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request ( The data is invalid. )
Via:1.1 <SERVERNAME>
Connection: close
Proxy-Connection: close
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 3116
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML dir=ltr><HEAD><TITLE>The page cannot be displayed</TITLE>
<STYLE>A:link {
FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana; COLOR: #ff0000
}
A:visited {
FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana; COLOR: #4e4e4e
}
</STYLE>
blah blah blah
Does anyone have any advice on how I should be troubleshooting websites
through a telnet session please?
Cheers
William R.
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William Robertson
AST Mpumalanga
Systems House / Consultant: Software
Tel: 013-2472703 / 083 638 0354
Fax: 013-2462236
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