Subject: Re: Xah Lee's Unixism
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:21:22 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc,alt.folklore.computers,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.python,comp.unix.programmer
Message-ID: <4PGdnfsOfdDPi63cRVn-tA@speakeasy.net>
Pascal Bourguignon  <spam@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
+---------------
| $ telnet xahlee.org 80;
| Trying 208.186.130.4...
| Connected to xahlee.org.
| Escape character is '^]'.
| GET / HTTP/1.1
| 
| HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
| Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:35:52 GMT
| Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Fedora)
|         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+---------------

So are you complaining about the fact that his hosting provider
preloaded RedHat Fedora with Apache 2.0 for him? [A lot of them do,
these days, 'cuz it's much cheaper than preloading RedHat Enterprise.]

Or are you complaining about that perfectly correct error message
which pointed out that you omitted a required HTTP/1.1 header?  ;-}  ;-}

    % telnet xahlee.org 80
    Trying 208.186.130.4...
    Connected to xahlee.org.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    GET / HTTP/1.1
    Host: xahlee.org 

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:16:44 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Fedora)
    Last-Modified: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:36:38 GMT
    ETag: "c41bc-87b-a8715980"
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 2171
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Xah's Homepage</title>
    </head>
    <body  ... >
      ...[trimmed]...
    </body>
    </html>
    % 


-Rob

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