Re: [SLUG] O@nospam.H Webspace - 96% Linux Free :)

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:25:12AM +1000, Rodos wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Matt wrote:
> 
> > Is it "Roh-dos" ? 
> 
> Thats the typical mistake.
> 
> > Rodos ? What a neat name !
> 
> Its pronounced Rod-os. The second bit is like "Dos" without the D.

Kind of like `borg' without the b and g with r being replaced by s. ;)

> Really, sounds like crap to me. The IP is only 14ms and 5 hops from my
> modem so I doubt its excite. Whereas www.excite.com.au is being hosted by
> alter.net in the USA.  Both sites say they are running Netscape-Enterprise
> server though.
> 
> [rodos@nospam.reed /tmp]$ telnet members.optushome.com.au 80
> Trying 203.164.2.16...
> Connected to members.optushome.com.au.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET / HTTP/1.0

Try:

HEAD / HTTP/1.0

instead. You get less garbage from the remote end.

Anand
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