Tyler, try this instead for a more proper way to do it:
Note: you will have to hit return twice after putting in the HEAD line

$ telnet nerdie.org 80
Trying 208.142.86.4...
Connected to nerdie.org (208.142.86.4).
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP:1.1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:31:17 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2
Last-Modified: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 15:32:26 GMT
ETag: "4eeb8-1615-3c87880a"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 5653
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
X-Pad: avoid browser bug

Connection closed by foreign host.




On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Tyler
Hall wrote:

> Why not just telnet into the port and type something?
>
> plug@stimpy:/var/log$ telnet microsoft.com 80
> Trying 207.46.230.220...
> Connected to microsoft.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> asdf
> HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
> Content-Type: text/html
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
>
> plug@stimpy:/var/log$ telnet nerdie.org 80
> Trying 208.142.86.4...
> Connected to nerdie.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> asdf
> Invalid method in request asdf<P>
> <HR>
> <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.23 Server at www.nerdie.org Port 80</ADDRESS>
> </BODY></HTML>
>
> Tyler
>
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