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laumars on March 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Curl, 17 years old today

Sometimes just plain telnet. It wasn't pretty, but it worked:

    $ telnet 80
    GET /

It should be noted that the above isn't a strict HTTP request header, it's missing quite a lot of detail, but it works as an example.

TazeTSchnitzel on March 20, 2015 | [–]

Add two newlines and that is a perfectly valid HTTP/0.9 request.

josteink on March 20, 2015 | | [–]

Pre curl/wget that was probably sufficient.

HTTP/1.1 wasn't around until 1996 so back then Host: headers weren't even "optional". They simply didn't exist yet.

gsnedders on March 20, 2015 | [–]

That's what HTTP/0.9 requests look like!

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