This is what I tried
telnet www.google.com 80
Get HTTP/1.1 Host:www.google.com
This I what I receive back
HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 925
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:37:42 GMT
Server: GFE/2.0
How do I make this work? I trying to use telnet to access www.google.com
$ telnet www.google.com 80
Trying 173.194.38.82...
Connected to www.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: http://www.google.co.jp/
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
[.... skipped ....]
After issuing the request:
GET / HTTP/1.1
you also need input an empty line to show that your request has ended, otherwise, nothing will be returned.
Reference: http://blog.nullspace.io/day-208.html