On 03/07/2013 07:09 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > 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. > > Rule #1. When testing turn off the firewall. .