HTTP GET
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How many ways can you get a web page?
This works in Bourne and Bash. The "if" statement is to get around differences between the shell built-ins versus the stand-along in /bin/echo.
if echo -e | grep -q -- -e; then echo "sh style" (echo 'GET /dotfiles HTTP/1.1\nHost: www.noah.org\n\n'; sleep 2 ) | telnet www.noah.org 80 else echo "Bash style" (echo -e 'GET /dotfiles HTTP/1.1\nHost: www.noah.org\n\n'; sleep 2 ) | telnet www.noah.org 80 fi
It's probably just as well to use multiple `echo` statements since this will work on both:
(echo 'GET /dotfiles HTTP/1.1';echo 'Host: www.noah.org';echo;echo; sleep 2 ) | telnet www.noah.org 80
This one gets rid of the HTTP response header by deleting everything up to and including the first blank line.
(echo 'GET /dotfiles HTTP/1.0';echo 'Host: www.noah.org';echo;echo;sleep 1) | telnet www.noah.org 80 2>/dev/null | sed '1,/^$/ d'
You can do a similar thing with netcat (`nc`). Notice that the `telnet` version requires a `sleep` to give time for the data to come back whereas the `nc` version waits until the remote server closes the connection, so no `sleep` is necessary.
(echo 'GET /dotfiles HTTP/1.1';echo 'Host: www.noah.org';echo;echo) | nc www.noah.org 80