Re: Very basic protocol question

Dancer wrote:

> Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> >
> > Hi. I want to implement a "thin" HTTP client which telnets to port 3128
> > of our proxy and makes a generic HTTP request, say, fetching the
> > contents of "http://www.linux.org/". To test, I telnetted via Windows
> > and wrote GET http://www.linux.org/<Enter>. A few seconds after that I
> > got an error page saying, "Connection Lifetime Expired".
> >
> > If I type two Enters, I immediately get this. Saying "GET HTTP/1.0
> > http://www.linux.org/" doesn't help either.
>
> You got the syntax wrong:
>
> GET http://www.linux.org/ HTTP/1.0<enter><enter>

Yeah, that was it. Thank you! BTW, is there a RFC or something which explains
the differences between querying a Web server and querying a proxy?