Re: Cheers for Raw HTTP solutions

To: Sacha Varma <sv3@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Cheers for Raw HTTP solutions
From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:49:23 -0400
cc: www-lib@w3.org
From www-lib-request@www10.w3.org Wed Aug 21 09: 49:33 1996
Message-Id: <199608211349.JAA12379@www20.w3.org>
References: <m0utCqG-0000YXC@oak72.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Reply-To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
X-List-URL: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Archives/Public/www-lib/
X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96

Sacha Varma writes:
> Thanks to everyone who mailed in telling me how to get some raw HTTP replies.
> 
> (The answer was to use telnet to connect to the host, port 80, and then just
> type in the request).

Yes, but that can't be automated and you have no timeouts etc. etc. 
Therefore, a better solution is to use the command line tool or the line 
mode browser. Using the first, it would look like

	w3c -n -source http://www.w3.org

and the latter

	www -n -raw http://www.w3.org

-- 
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, <frystyk@w3.org>
World Wide Web Consortium, MIT/LCS NE43-356
545 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139, USA

References:

Cheers for Raw HTTP solutions

From: Sacha Varma <sv3@doc.ic.ac.uk>

Prev: Re: Beta 3 configure script problem
Next: Cheers for Raw HTTP solutions
Index: Message index of www-lib@w3.org mailing list
Thread: Thread index of www-lib@w3.org mailing list