"Lab": 2.2: Telnet, NC, cURL, HTTP

Part 1: telnet

• Command: telnet localhost 8008
• Web request text GET /index.html
• Response:

Part 2: nc

• Command: nc -C localhost 8008
• Web request text:

OPTIONS /index.html HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Connection: close

• NOTE: The trailing newline is important????
• Response:

Netcat had me really stumped

So here's some stuff I looked at to figure out why OPTIONS wasn't OPTION-ing:

• Security StackExchange Post
• MDN page on HTTP messages
• MDN page on HTTP OPTIONS specifically

Part 3: curl

• Command: curl http://localhost:8008
• Reponse: