Clueless national monopoly providers

[Phil Mayers]

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)