[WEB4LIB] Re: seeking browser with command console that will accept

[Binkley, Peter]

And don't forget to credit the "Best Viewed with Telnet to Port 80"
Initiative: http://www.dgate.org/~brg/bvtelnet80/

Peter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Dowling [mailto:tdowling at ohiolink.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 08:50 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: seeking browser with command console 
> that will accept
> 
> 
> John Fitzgibbon wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am seeking a browser with a command interface where I can 
> type HTTP 
> >commands such as GET, POST, PUT, TRACE, HEAD and OPTIONS and 
> view the 
> >response from the server as plain text. Does such a program exist?
> >
> >Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> If you really want to get down to the nuts and bolts, you can just do 
> "telnet [server] 80" and enter your HTTP commands manually.  
> ("Browser? 
> We don' need no steenking browser!")
> 
> Both Mozilla and Firefox support the livehttpheaders extension from 
> <http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org>.  It displays both the request 
> headers and response headers for the current page in the Page 
> Info dialog.
> 
> 
> Thomas Dowling
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>