On 9/23/15 8:16 PM, gregrwm wrote: > this is totally a headscratcher for me. my browser fetches and > displays the expected and reasonable pages for google.com > <http://google.com>, www.kfai.org <http://www.kfai.org>, and > yermande.org <http://yermande.org>. and the first command below seems > to successfully fetch google.com <http://google.com>'s root page. > however the second and third commands below get surprising results > from www.kfai.org <http://www.kfai.org> and yermande.org > <http://yermande.org>. any ideas what's happening? > > >$ exec 3<> /dev/tcp/google.com/80;echo <http://google.com/80;echo> > "GET /">&3;while read -r r;do echo $r;done<&3|head -5 ... Why not use curl or wget? If you want to use bash this way, try wireshark/tcpdump to see exactly what's going down the wire. John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150923/842eef4d/attachment.html>