On 03/07/2013 06:30 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2013-03-07, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >> On 03/07/2013 05:06 PM, 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 ..." >>> >>> right? >> No. I did a simple copy from the manpage. check it out yourself. :( > The man page may be incorrect. You need -e in order to get echo to > print out the line feeds properly: I did try with "echo -ne" and that worked. the man page IS incorrect. Guess I have to submit a bug report. > Did you also try the client/server example in the man page (which looks > correct to me)? The localhost loopback works. Ah, I just figured out my between systems problem. I was testing across subnets, and the port I was using is not allowed over ipv6, I only have an ipv4 rule for it. gumble. Corollary #2 of Murphy's Law: "It is always something." Now back to it. I think I figured out my HIP testing problems; it has to do with the HIPFW options... Always firewalls, it seems.