Re: Cheers for Raw HTTP solutions

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


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Received on Wednesday, 21 August 1996 09:49:33 UTC