Sunday, November 18, 2012

How to access web page without Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari

In networking, sometime while performing network trouble shooting, you may like to quickly test if the connection to a website is available. Without using a web browser, you also can use the telnet command that is available in most of the login terminal like Command prompt, unix login shell or Cisco login terminal.

To test a connection to a website like www.abc.com just key in

% telnet www.abc.com 80

If a connection is establish, you may like to subsequently key in "GET /" to retrieve the index file from this site.

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