[vox-tech] Telnetting to port 80 when you don't run telnet on the server

[Jay Strauss]

Sorry, I suffer from not giving enough info.  My web server, sits on my
woody box.  My woody box does not have telnetd installed.  From my client
machine I'd like to:

telnet www.mydomain.com 80
GET index.html

But can't do it (because I don't run telnetd).  Is there some workaround?  I
can ssh to the host running the web server (could I do some sort of internal
request??)

Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <p@dirac.org>
To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Telnetting to port 80 when you don't run telnet on
the server


> jay, telnet and telnetd are different packages on debian.
>
> it's fine to install telnet (or better yet, telnet-ssl).  there's no
> security risk in running telnet if you don't type a password.
>
> what you *don't* want to do is run telnetd on your system.  so go ahead
> and do an "apt-get install telnet" or "apt-get install telnet-ssl".
>
> just don't use it to transmit passwords (which you don't have to do from
> your description below) and you'll be safe and sound.
>
> pete
>
> On Tue 20 May 03, 12:26 PM, Jay Strauss <me@heyjay.com> opined:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the mod-perl (eagle) book.  They have a lot of examples of telnetting
to
> > port 80, doing a GET and looking at the output (like the headers and
stuff).
> > I run woody, I don't have telnet, like a good boy I use ssh.  Can some
> > suggest a workaround, or do I have to install telnet on my server to do
the
> > examples
> >
> > Jay
> >
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