[CLUE-Tech] PHP Sessions and Cookies: Brain Cramp

Sat Oct 12 22:57:24 MDT 2002

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:53:23 -0600
David Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net> wrote:

> Matt Gushee wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > Whoa, now that is cool! I had no idea you could do that with Telnet.
> > Certainly useful; however, I just tried it on my Web site, and the
> > server returned the document at the requested URL, but no headers. Are
> > there any command options or environment variables that might affect
> > that?
> > 
> 
> The headers are the stuff before the <HTML> tag.  There should at least 
> be one that say "HTTP" followed by a 3 digit result code (like 200 or
> 400).

So, I gues _not_ like this? Is this informative? And why is it different
than the "HEAD" or "lynx -mime-header" command. Did somebody go and make
telnet too smart?

$ telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /~jbaer/php/trysession.php
<html>
<body>
<hr>
Count is 1<p>session is 74dfbd4da10d4adb098e53aeb877b61a<hr>
</body>
</html>
Connection closed by foreign host.

> Interesting that throwing bad requests at the CLUE server shows that my 
> ISP is running a proxy for me (squid).

Great Cthulhu! That could cause all sorts of things, like faster page
loads!

jed
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