On 07/03/2013 22:06, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> I can't get nc to do anything worthwhile. In fact I can't even get the >> examples in the manpage to work. From either my C6 servers or my F17 >> notebooks. For example: >> >> echo -n "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n" | nc medon.htt-consult.com 80 > > You mean > > echo -ne "GET ..." Certainly works for me with the right echo options, and one of those old-style basic HTTP requests. John.