[ih] FTP RIP

[Andrew G. Malis]

Brian,

> My computer has forgotten how to do telnet, but for many years you could
telnet to port 80 on an HTTP server and get something sensible back.

You still can (this is using a MacOS Catalina terminal session):

andy at iMac27 ~ % telnet www.google.com 80
Trying 142.250.64.68...
Connected to www.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:01:09 GMT
Expires: -1
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info."
Server: gws
X-XSS-Protection: 0
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Set-Cookie: 1P_JAR=2020-09-28-12; expires=Wed, 28-Oct-2020 12:01:09 GMT;
path=/; domain=.google.com; Secure
Set-Cookie:
NID=204=e3I_sEH-Z4wS0SsJV3qDNtAw1vbJkECMbPS_IBuMG2EXaBkgYqnu2vwKJQxYwX4ukUQWGKk0Qfrw5_Knteo1d_XzmPo2pdNLUotGdUByBRZlSnn1mJdiJh4eupzec03Fc6qfw_pp91m9et2ysemtF648hh6BxpE8NKjG0CA2eFQ;
expires=Tue, 30-Mar-2021 12:01:09 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly
Accept-Ranges: none
Vary: Accept-Encoding

And so on ....

Cheers,
Andy