Re: [PLUG] raw GET requests

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

On 1/29/19 1:35 PM, Soren Harward wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:54 PM Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think the site is just hanging because wget, lynx-dump and my script hangs, but I was wondering how to make a raw GET request in bash?  what is the syntax?

> #3: if you really, really, really have to do it with nothing but bash,
> you can create a named redirect to a tcp port:
>
> $ exec 5<>/dev/tcp/[hostname]/80
> $ echo -e 'GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n' >&5
> $ cat <&5

Note that Bash stuff requires that Bash be compiled with support for net 
redirection.  Some Bash, on Debian & Ubuntu in particular, was not.  It 
might be now, I haven't looked in a long time.  So this may or may not 
work depending on your bash version, distro and distro age.

Later,
JP
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