On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Ben Reser wrote: BR> On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:07:58PM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: BR> > Often you no longer use telnet to connect to a telnet server, but as a BR> > simple diagnostic tool to talk to HTTP server and so on. BR> BR> Try HEAD or GET for that. You'll have these if you have perl and BR> perl-libwww-perl-5.63-2mdk installed...
Which only work if you diagnose HTTP server. telnet is a all-round utility to have to test servers, may it be POP, IMAP or HTTP servers. -- http://www.edlund.org/