Sometimes you want/have to send specific http(s) requests. You can do that easy with curl or just write the request yourself.
make a http request with nc
nc example.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
# press enter
make a http request with telnet
telnet example.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
# press enter
make https request with openssl
openssl s_client -connect example.com:443
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
# press enter
You can specify more headers if you want:
nc example.com 80
GET /foo.html HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept: text/html
# press enter
Posted by Kim Klotz to makandra dev (2017-04-24 15:25)