The problem is you are doing HTTP/1.0, not HTTP/1.1, and very few web servers today do 1.0. Try this: exec 3<> /dev/tcp/www.kfai.org/80; echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\nHost: www.kfai.org\n\n">&3; while read -r r; do echo $r; done <&3 -- Jay Kline jay at slushpupie.com On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:16 PM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > this is totally a headscratcher for me. my browser fetches and displays the > expected and reasonable pages for google.com, www.kfai.org, and > yermande.org. and the first command below seems to successfully fetch > google.com's root page. however the second and third commands below get > surprising results from www.kfai.org and yermande.org. any ideas what's > happening? > >>$ exec 3<> /dev/tcp/google.com/80;echo "GET /">&3;while read -r r;do echo >> $r;done<&3|head -5 >>HTTP/1.0 200 OK >>Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:17:43 GMT >>Expires: -1 >>Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 >>Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >>$ exec 3<>/dev/tcp/www.kfai.org/80;echo "GET /">&3;while read -r r;do echo >> $r;done<&3 >><html><body><h1>It works!</h1> >><p>This is the default web page for this server.</p> >><p>The web server software is running but no content has been added, >> yet.</p> >></body></html> > >>$ exec 3<>/dev/tcp/yermande.org/80;echo "GET /">&3;while read -r r;do echo >> $r;done<&3 >><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> >><html><head> >><title>404 Not Found</title> >></head><body> >><h1>Not Found</h1> >><p>The requested URL / was not found on this server.</p> >><hr> >><address>Apache Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80</address> >></body></html> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >