Re: http tool...

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Ken Keefe wrote:
> Is there a simple command line tool that allows you to do some basic
> http requests (besides telnet)? For example, send a GET request to a
> webserver.

A very useful tool is netcat (aka nc), which is available on Knoppix  
4.0.2.  Some examples:

$ echo "GET /" | nc cwelug.org 80

$ echo -e 'HEAD /  HTTP/1.0\n' | nc cwelug.org 80

$ ( message='foo=123&bar=456' ;
echo -en "POST /cgi-bin/env.cgi HTTP 1.1
Content-type: text/plain
Content-Length: $(echo -n "$message"| wc -c)

$message" |
nc cwelug.org 80 )

Is that what you were looking for?  Either way, please let us know  
what you tried and how things went.

Regards,
- Robert
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