[Gllug] HTTP CONNECT

[Thom May]

* Dean Wilson (dean.wilson3 at virgin.net) wrote :
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "will" <will at hellacool.co.uk>
> 
> 
> > OK, when I telnetted to my machine on port 80 and tried: "CONNECT
> > mail.somedomain.net:25 HTTP/1.0\n\n" I got my homepage.  Is this what I
> should
> > be getting?  Or do I need to start to worry?
> 
> Nah i wouldn't worry, i assume your server conf is just saying it doesn't
> know  what you want here have the default. Not sure if it should 404
> though...

Nope. The HTTP server spec says that's a valid request. (because otherwise
if the server was running a proxy it would 404 every proxy request, which
would be bad ;) )
-Thom

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