Re: Very basic protocol question

Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
>
> Dancer wrote:
>
> > Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi. I want to implement a "thin" HTTP client which telnets to port 3128
> > > of our proxy and makes a generic HTTP request, say, fetching the
> > > contents of "http://www.linux.org/". To test, I telnetted via Windows
> > > and wrote GET http://www.linux.org/<Enter>. A few seconds after that I
> > > got an error page saying, "Connection Lifetime Expired".
> > >
> > > If I type two Enters, I immediately get this. Saying "GET HTTP/1.0
> > > http://www.linux.org/" doesn't help either.
> >
> > You got the syntax wrong:
> >
> > GET http://www.linux.org/ HTTP/1.0<enter><enter>
>
> Yeah, that was it. Thank you! BTW, is there a RFC or something which explains
> the differences between querying a Web server and querying a proxy?

Try the HTTP specification from http://www.w3.org/

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Received on Wed Jul 14 1999 - 19:00:10 MDT