[ILUG] Bash & network programming...

[Waider]

According to John Madden:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 John P. Looney didst pronounce:
> 
> > Any idea how to get a web page down with bash ?
> >
> > I tried;
> >
> >echo "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n"| cat < /dev/tcp/172.24.1.104/80 > /dev/tcp/172.24.1.104/80
> >
> > with no luck. (172.24.1.104 being a webserver).
> >
> Would lynx -source do what you want?
> 

Or wget? Or links -dump? or netcat?

I'd guess that the problem with the above is one of
(a) asynchronicity (is that a word?) - you're trying to get cat to read
    stdin and a redirect at the same time, for one thing, and for another,
    are you guaranteed that the < and > connect as you'd expect?
(b) HTTP specifies CRLF as line endings, not LF on its own. Of course, most
    things don't really care about this, but.

Waider.
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