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Comment by pekim | Hacker News Reader

It's not an http server. Try with something like nc or telnet, and you should get an 'ok' response before it disconnects.

    telnet -4 susam.net 8000

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From the article:

> The other party can use whatever client they have to connect to port 8000 of my system, e.g., a web browser, nc HOST 8000, curl HOST:8000, or even, ssh HOST -p 8000, irssi -c HOST -p 8000, etc.

Oops, that'll teach me to read articles properly before commenting, rather than just skimming.

Now I feel a bit like writing some tool to automatically follow your posts (easy with existing HN replies) do a semantic analysis on them to determine when you will make that misstake again and give some alert (the hard/expensive part).

Maybe the alert could be four beeps on your terminal

And then I write a blog post about it. But maybe I find something more novel. (And I have, but maybe I can actually use it for the task above)

To get an OK I had to force curl to use http 0.9

> curl -v --http0.9 susam.net:8000

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