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Development Tools HTTP Basics Introduction to HTTP HTTP Requests Using Telnet

Posted by Chris Troy
Chris Troy
Courses Plus Student 7,395 Points

Telnet won't connect.

Telnet says that my browser does not send a complete request in time. Any ideas?

Jonathan Whittle
Jonathan Whittle
28,309 Points

Can you explain more? Telnet has been removed from modern versions of macOS.

2 Answers

cb123
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cb123
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cb123
cb123
Courses Plus Student 9,858 Points

my attempts at telnet locally on my Windows 10 machine all failed. just goes blank then 30 seconds or so later quits and goes back to prompt.

my attempts using workspaces were all successfull as portrayed in the video.

somehow treehouse workspaces must be "approved" or whitelisted for telnet requests on port 80 by this resource. the casual audience is locked out. this is my guess.

Reinhard Liess
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Reinhard Liess
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Reinhard Liess
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Reinhard Liess
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 21,034 Points

Here's a way to make telnet work on Windows 10:

  • Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux and then Ubuntu from the Windows store.
  • You can then just use telnet from the bash shell. If you set bash as the default terminal in Visual Studio Code (search settings for terminal windows and switch it from powershell to C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe), you can even use telnet in Visual Studio Code terminal window.
mahmoud elguindi
mahmoud elguindi
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mahmoud elguindi
mahmoud elguindi
2,364 Points

keep getting Connection closed by foreign host. when i use workspace. Also unable to installed telnet on mac. Any workarounds?