I'm playing with a script and need a push. Why doesn't this work? telnet lists.debian.org 80 GET /debian-mentors-0101/msg00033.html HTTP/1.0 Accept: */* The following works but why is the full url is required? telnet lists.debian.org 80 GET http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors-0101/msg00033.html HTTP/1.0 Accept: */* That's an extra <ret> after the Accept line in each case. Rick --