[ih] FTP RIP

Mon Sep 28 07:58:30 PDT 2020

In article <dd81339e-3121-4315-a36b-d26338753e56 at gmail.com> you write:
>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 if you have a telnet client.

My FTP server at ftp.iecc.com still works fine if you want to pick up
back articles from comp.compilers and the like.

R's,
John

$ telnet www.iecc.com 80
Trying 64.57.183.39...
Connected to www.iecc.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:57:16 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.46 (FreeBSD) OpenSSL/1.0.2u-freebsd mod_wsgi/4.7.0 Python/3.7 PHP/7.4.10
Location: https://www.iecc.com/
Content-Length: 205
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="https://www.iecc.com/">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>
Connection closed by foreign host.