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Development Tools HTTP Basics Introduction to HTTP Sending Data with a POST Request

Hamzah Iqbal
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How to get correct HTTP request - Content length

I am trying to get the HTTP request on the challenge. I have used two methods. On the command line, i type in

telnet example.com 80

Then it waits, Then i type GET

   HTTP/1.0 501 Not Implemented                                                                                                                                             Content-Type: text/html                                                                                                                                                     Content-Length: 357                                                                                                                                                         Connection: close                                                                                                                                                           Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:27:54 GMT                                                                                                                                         Server: ECSF (nyb/1D0C)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>                                                                                                                                                                            <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"                                                                                                                                                                                     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">                                                                                                                                                                            <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">                                                                                                                                                                                 <head>                                                                                                                                                                                      <title>501 - Not Implemented</title>                                                                                                                                                                                </head>                                                                                                                                                                             <body>                                                                                                                                                                                      <h1>501 - Not Implemented</h1>                                                                                                                                                                                  </body>                                                                                                                                                                            </html>                         

No connection to the host                                                                                                                     

I tried using an online version of sending the request, however nothing really works.

I used the GET request too and that is the wrong answer.