Lanny:
Ross: I have an old (2003) book about Network Troubleshooting. It shows an example of using Telnet to Port 80, to see what's happening. I just tried that, and assuming the CentOS server in Layered Tech is configured the same way, which is a huge assumption, it is not responding with HTML. However, I also tried that, to one of my web sites, on a shared server in CT, (I had them disable Telnet and Anonymous FTP) and it does not respond with HTML there either. My browser can load my web site without any problem. Probably this is *NOT* a valid way to test this! Here's what I got, in my 3 attempts:
insufficent info on your GET, and you can't use any backspaces, you pretty much have to paste a perfect command...
$ telnet www.centos.org www Trying 72.232.194.162... Connected to www.centos.org (72.232.194.162). Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.centos.org
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:08:16 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS) X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9 Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=d329988a9d984ee4bbe2e1e2f12d2aa0; path=/ Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: private, no-cache Pragma: no-cache Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Connection closed by foreign host.
note i had to send THREE lines... I used the HEAD command rather than GET so I don't have to stare at a bunch of html.
HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.centos.org
(and a blank line to terminate the request)