Re: ncat usage

[Dave Henderson <dhenderson () digital-pipe com>]

Ok, I adjusted the script to output the verbatim information you've 
listed below using the same graphic file (also provided below).  
Afterwards, I tried again in the browser, but it still just shows the 
raw contents of the graphic file as part of the HTML.  As a result, I 
tried an ncat on the ncat web server to see it's output, and as 
expected, I got the identical output below.  What I did notice, and 
later verified as an issue with all requests, is that the connection 
never closes.  As such, I think the original connection to the web 
server transmitting the HTML never closes so any output produced 
afterwards gets added right behind it as part of it (the graphics file 
request).  This would also explain why the status bar never shows a 
disconnect from the web server.  So... I changed the script once again 
to put ncat inside the infinite 'while' loop (and remove the -k 
parameter) so that it should basically serve the file and then stop 
running - only this didn't correct the problem!  The connection still 
stays open when I ncat, the ncat web server!  I've even tried doing an 
"echo -e '\x04'" (EOT/EOF) after the HTML is transmitted to the server, 
but it doesn't cause a disconnect either.  Thoughts?

Thanks,
Dave


On 05/10/2012 04:15 PM, James Rogers wrote:
> I got it to work on my localhost.   Evidently you have to give a HOST
> tag or something similar for some sort of virtual hosting on many
> servers.
>
> ncat -C localhost 80
> GET /icons/folder.gif HTTP/1.0
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:12:32 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu)
> Last-Modified: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:16:24 GMT
> ETag: "c6c1d-e1-3e9564c23b600"
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Length: 225
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: image/gif
>
> GIF89a�����̙����f3333!�NThis art is in the public domain. Kevin
> Hughes, kevinh@IE�qg<��N"4�IRaV�V���x��l<&����z�#,L��;
;
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Dave Henderson
> <dhenderson () digital-pipe com>  wrote:
> > I tried your suggestion below, but constantly get a 404 error when trying to
> > get a graphic from a remote host even though I know the path and filename
> > are correct.  Any other thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
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