this is totally a headscratcher for me. my browser fetches and displays the expected and reasonable pages for google.com, www.kfai.org, and yermande.org. and the first command below seems to successfully fetch google.com's root page. however the second and third commands below get surprising results from www.kfai.org and yermande.org. any ideas what's happening? >$ exec 3<> /dev/tcp/google.com/80;echo "GET /">&3;while read -r r;do echo $r;done<&3|head -5 >HTTP/1.0 200 OK >Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:17:43 GMT >Expires: -1 >Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 >Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 >$ exec 3<>/dev/tcp/www.kfai.org/80;echo "GET /">&3;while read -r r;do echo $r;done<&3 ><html><body><h1>It works!</h1> ><p>This is the default web page for this server.</p> ><p>The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.</p> ></body></html> >$ exec 3<>/dev/tcp/yermande.org/80;echo "GET /">&3;while read -r r;do echo $r;done<&3 ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> ><html><head> ><title>404 Not Found</title> ></head><body> ><h1>Not Found</h1> ><p>The requested URL / was not found on this server.</p> ><hr> ><address>Apache Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80</address> ></body></html> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150923/077d85b4/attachment.html>