On 10 Oct 2014, at 15:01, Phil Mayers <p.may...@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
