but if telnetd is not started on http server or configured to ignore telnet stream, you will just get a connection time out on client.... so its not a good idea to prob http server with telnet protocol. Peter chacko. 2010/2/13 Guido Trentalancia <guido@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 04:13 +0200, Покотиленко Костик wrote: >> В Суб, 13/02/2010 в 00:18 +0100, Guido Trentalancia пишет: >> > On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 00:03 +0100, Bojan Sukalo wrote: >> > > Telnet from inside machine to www.google.com 80 works but I can't get >> > > any messages after I get connected (Just successfull telnet >> > > connection) >> > >> > You can't telnet www.google.com on port 80, as google is not a telnet >> > server and therefore it can't deal with the telnet protocol. Google >> > deals with the http protocol. >> >> Why one can't use telnet program to test http server? > > Just because one won't get anything more than just "connected". So it is > not a very useful way to test HTTP nor NAT... > > Guido > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html