From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35144 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: HTTP/0.9 How I hate thee! ... what the... Date: 01 Mar 2001 14:24:20 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References:

NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170936 1408 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:28:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574B1D04A0 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:24:50 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB06215; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:24:44 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 01 Mar 2001 16:24:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA05046 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:23:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.246]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 57FA9D04A0 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:24:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 6816 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2001 22:24:22 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO reader.local.lan) (209.144.117.151) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 1 Mar 2001 22:24:22 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f21MOKD23971; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:24:20 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "01 Mar 2001 13:55:35 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 71 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35144 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35144 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > On 28 Feb 2001, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > Running CVS w3 > > Where did you get the `url' package that's needed for this w3? With the same cvs download when I got the w3 part about 2 weeks ago. w3 comes in two parts now. A `w3' and a `url' directory. > What happens when you "telnet host.name 80" to that host, then type > "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" followed by two returns? Nothing at all happens $ telnet www.cs.indiana.edu 80 Trying 129.79.254.195... Connected to grouchy.cs.indiana.edu. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 [] <==cursor here forever Finally ^] telnet> Without the " / HTTP/1.0" I get these results: $ telnet www.cs.indiana.edu 80 Trying 129.79.254.195... Connected to grouchy.cs.indiana.edu. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD Returns: 400 Bad Request

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

client sent invalid HTTP/0.9 request: HEAD /

Apache/1.3.14 Server at www.cs.indiana.edu Port 80

Connection closed by foreign host. Going a little farther here, I'm able to connect with netscape and lynx like this netscape/lynx http://www.cs.indiana.edu:80 But not when w3 starts up. So starting w3 on a local file then calling ^o and putting the address at the prompt: URL: www.cs.indiana.edu:80 w3 clains to have downloaded the page but nothing appears: (from messages buffer) Downloading of `http://www.cs.indiana.edu:80' complete. When I open that address in netscape or lynx and look at the source, the doctype says: