Clueless national monopoly providers

[Tim Chown]

On 10 Oct 2014, at 15:01, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 10/10/14 14:50, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> 
>> % telnet -4 www.bt.com 80
>> Trying 62.239.186.73...
>> Connected to www.bt.com.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> GET /
>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>> 
>> 
>> Whatever load balancer that is, it needs an upgrade and understand g’ol HTTP 0.9 as well in addition to IPv6 ;-)
> 
> In fairness, I've run into a lot of actual, real-life webserver code (usually Java Servlet based cough Oracle cough) that requires, at minimum, a Host: and Accept: header. Annoying, but I guess...
> 
> However as another person points out, this fails with real, browser, HTTP requests. The "nc" was just a convenient way of showing it ;o)

Indeed, from a v6 capable browser on a v6 network, I get /sadface This web page is not available.

Whoops!

Tim