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Development Tools HTTP Basics Introduction to HTTP HTTP Requests Using Telnet

Rebekah Smith
Rebekah Smith
7,263 Points
Posted by Rebekah Smith
Rebekah Smith
7,263 Points

Telnet worked for me. What I did, Windows 8

Telnet worked for me but not exactly how it worked for others.

  1. Enabled telnet. Entered this in command prompt: "dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient"
  2. Open Command Prompt as administrator. Windows Key > type "command prompt" > right click the Command Prompt icon > Run as administrator > enter administrator password
  3. Enter "telnet httpbin.org 80"
  4. My result was Command Prompt goes blank except for blinking underscore. Blindly, because the prompt does not display what I'm typing, and within 60 seconds, entered perfectly "GET / HTTP/1.1"[Enter key]"Host: httpbin.org"[Enter key][Enter key] RESULT: raw html with status 200 OK

Since I can't see what I'm typing, this is not a great solution. I'll be using the Workspace or Chrome addon Postman for the rest of this course

Gray Jackson
Gray Jackson
529 Points

Thanks for the explanation, after entering 'telnet httpbin.org 80' my cmd goes blank AS WELL. Gonna use workspace.