Question : Problem: Basic telnet commands

I need telnet for the first time, and need a basic search command.

I spent an hour with the firewall tech support and we created the various NAT policies and access rules to the point that we had access from telnet.

But I need to be able to search the site we opened up to see that the .NET web service is running there.

Can anyone give me a tip about how to do that?

thanks,
newbieweb

Answer : Problem: Basic telnet commands

windoze's telnet is a very stupid tool ...
Anyway, assuming you want to connect a web server (HTTP), then do:

telnet 12.34.56.78 1234

no you see nothing than a blinking cursor (depends on your terminal), you can initiate a HTTP request as follows:

GET /path/to/webservice?wsdl HTTP/1.1
Host: your.FQDN.here
Other-header: as you-need


Important is that you finish the HTTP header lines win an empty line by just hiting return. If your server speaks HTTP on that port, you'll get back the response.