Telnetting to a server

Most implementations of telnet allow you to specify a port number. Under unix this is often just a second parameter, under VMS a /PORT option.

The HTTP protocol is a telnet protocol, so you can simulate it just by typing things in. This will help you to see exactly what a sending back, and it will check you that it really is the server not the browser which has a problem.

Here is an example. (You type "telnet..." and "GET ...").

> telnet myhost.domain 80 Connected to myhost.domain on port 80 Escape is ^[ GET /documentname <PLAINTEXT> Document name "/documentname" invalid.

Tim BL