[3733] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: command line html commands
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Boston)
Fri Dec 6 16:23:36 1996
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 17:52:28 +0000
From: Ian Boston <ieb@time-fld.demon.co.uk>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
There is a command line browser/retriever in the CERN Library it think
its called WWW or possibly CommandLine ?
Hope this helps.
Tommy Hellstr=F6m wrote:
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> > Is it possible to do a http request via a script or command line?
> > Goal is to preload "stuff" in to a proxy
> > And to do a SSL Post via a cron tab.
> >
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> Bertrum,
> I think this is a command-line solution to your problem.
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> 1. Open a telnet session with your web-server on port 80(http-port)
> 2. Send http requests
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> For example:
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> >> telnet www.something.com 80
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> Then you get the usual telnet response:
> Connected to server.something.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
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> After that you can do your http requests, such as
> GET index.html
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> Remember that if you are going to "stuff" things into a server/proxy, i=
t
> normally requires authorization.
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> Tommy Hellstr=F6m.
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