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.

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