[cobalt-security] Possibly OT - Telnet and HTTP

["Edward Bishop" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry if this is OT, and that it's very newbie.

The HTTP tutorials etc on the web all suggest that you telnet to a web
server to experiment with HTTP requests and responses, eg

telnet www.some-server.com 80

and then send

get /path/index.htm http/1.1

but I can't get anything except 500, 501 and 502 errors. Has anyone ever
made this work? Does it fail because everyone has disabled Telnet access for
security reasons? If so, how does the HTTP server tell the difference
between a browser and a Telnet client connecting to port 80?

Any pointers to more info?

Thanks
Eddie Bishop