Re: Utility for "talking" to TCP port

[Kristopher Johnson <nosleep@atl.mediaone.net>]

George Bonser wrote:
> 
> telnet hostname portnum
> 
> telnet somehost 80
> 
> will do what you describe below.
> 
> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
> 
> > Is there any standard utility for opening a connection to a
> > TCP/IP port and then interactively sending data and seeing
> > responses?  For example, I'd like to be able to open a connection
> > to port 80 on some machine, type "GET / HTTP/1.0" and then see
> > the response.


OK, thanks.  I thought telnet would use "telnet protocol" which
would screw up what I was trying to do, but after reading the
telnet man page, I now know better.

- Kris