Here's a short tutorial on how to use GET and HEAD commands. Note: What you have to type is in blue colour. To check the header sent by the server for, say slashdot.org, this is what you do:
- Start a DOS prompt if you're using Windows, Terminal if you're using a Mac or a *nix terminal/Linux terminal if you're using Unix/Linux.
- Telnet to the server at port 80. What you have to type is in blue colour. The output is in white. Check the screenshot below:
$ telnet slashdot.org 80
Trying 216.34.181.45...
Connected to slashdot.org (216.34.181.45).
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: slashdot.org
Connection: close
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:58:58 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_perl/1.31-rc4
SLASH_LOG_DATA: shtml
X-Powered-By: Slash 2.005001234
X-Fry: I can burp the alphabet. A, B, D ... no, wait ...
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: private
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Connection closed by foreign host.
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