Re: URL return

jern@spaceaix.jhuapl.edu
Sat, 10 Dec 1994 09:13:01 -0500 (EST)


Jim Meritt writes:

>Is there an app that, when given a URL, returns the source document?
>There must have been something like that already developed and I really do
>not want to re-invent the wheel.

You might try telnet, we use it for testing. Given a usl, say:
URL:http://void.nowhere.edu/goodies.html

> telnet void.nowhere.edu 80
Connected to void.nowhere.edu.
GET /goodies.html HTTP/1.0 <--- you enter this + CRLF, CRLF

HTTP/1.0 200 OK <--- response starts here.
...etc (document following)

Bob J