[Linux-disciples] GET requests for other sites

[Stephen R Laniel]

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On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:07:23PM -0500, Ken Shan wrote:
> I used telnet. (:  Wget is versatile but I've been bitten by its buggy
> URL handling.  Curl or libwww-perl are other alternatives.

Geez. I didn't realize it was as easy as telnetting and typing 'GET
[foo]' or 'POST [foo]' or whatever. I thought one had to pass along all
the other stuff - like the referrer - and that if one didn't do so, the
process failed. Huh. Good to know.

--=20
``As Dick and Jane lay down in the back of Dick's sport utility
  vehicle, Spot ate the spicy stew. He wanted to help. Spot knew Jane was
  a racist who saw the stew as a symbol of Dick's ethnicity. He also knew
  it added to her deep-seated feelings of shame.''
 -http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/11/07kennedy.html/


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