What is HTTP? A simple to read (and write) protocol... lynx -source -mime_header http://www.cnet.com/bogus telnet www.cnet.com 80 GET /bogus HTTP/1.0 Host: www.cnet.com $ telnet www.cnet.com 80 Trying 216.239.115.141... Connected to c10-ssa-xw-lb.cnet.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET /bogus HTTP/1.0 Host: www.cnet.com HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:43:02 GMT Server: Apache/2.0 Accept-Ranges: bytes P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa PSAa PSDa IVAi IVDi CONi OUR OTRi IND PHY ONL UNI FIN COM NAV INT DEM STA" Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Expires: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:43:02 GMT ...