use telnet to retrieve web page in script

[Charles Li_1]

I have use the following in HP-UX and it works:
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telnet server port <GET /page
EOF
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In HP-UX it displays the content of the page.
But in Linux, it does not. What do I need to change to make it work in Linux. I am using RedHat. Thanks.

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

telnet servername port
GET http://site/page



works fine on my redhat

[Huc_1 · Accepted solution]

Try wget

best read man wget first

Tell us if you need more

J-P

[Mark Grant]

I don't understand why this works at all in anything. The http protocol requires you send a get , the url and the HTTP version and the hostname before you get any response from teh server.

Perhaps you could tell us how it isn't working but try sending a string like this

GET /page HTTP/1.1\nHost: $HOSTNAME\n\n

[Charles Li_1]

Thanks. wget works. I was using the telnet in a script, and it did not work. Thanks for all your replies.

[Stuart Browne]

Mark, A HTTP in it's most bastardised way can be used as above. If following protocol you need other bits and pieces.

Charles, using wget is your best option (or using 'lynx -source'), but the reason your telnet routne didn't work is because it was exiting as soon as it had sent the string.

The trick to doing that sort of thing with telnet is to 'sleep' for a while to await the response. Please note however that this is a truely dumb way to do it :P But it can be done. e.g.

( echo "GET /page"; sleep 5 ) | telnet host port

[Charles Li_1]

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