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Answer 1

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The Firefox addon HTTP Live headers is quite useful for that.

Fabian 2010-06-14 13:01:00

@Fabian: ah interesting, thanks for that link... However I was looking for something more "low level", like *telnet* :) Funnily I found a way to get my 301 two minutes after posting the question :)

NoozNooz42 2010-06-14 13:06:26

Answer 2

A:

OK, two minutes after answering the question I found the answer...

Doing the following doesn't work:

telnet www.example.org 80
GET / HTTP/1.0
{enter}
{enter}

But the following works fine:

telnet example.org 80
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.example.org
{enter}
{enter}

My error was to pass www.example.org to telnet (instead of example.org) and then not specifying any "Host: ".

Now it works, I get this:

Connected to xxx.xx
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.example.org

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Location: http://example.org/
Connection: close
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:02:22 GMT
Connection: close

Connection closed by foreign host.

NoozNooz42 2010-06-14 13:04:33

Answer 3

A:

In the headers (of the telnet response) you'll see it in the first line:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Via: XXXXXXXXXXX
Connection: close
Proxy-Connection: close
Content-Length: 0
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:03:14 GMT
Location: /xxxxxxxxx
Server: XXXXXXX
Cache-Control: private

Thanks

Mike Gleason jr Couturier 2010-06-14 13:04:39

@Mike Gleason jr Couturier: actually you don't in the way I showed in the question, which was the whole point of my question :) Look at my answer to see why it wasn't working in the way I was trying using telnet and what needs to be done to make it work :)

NoozNooz42 2010-06-14 13:09:17

You didn't had the 301 on the first line because it wasn't one. If the "www" version does it but not the "non-www" version, it's not the problem of telnet nor my answer. it's because one of the two URL does it and the other not. These are 2 different URLs.

Mike Gleason jr Couturier 2010-06-14 13:37:29

Answer 4

A:

I use Firebug's Net panel for this.

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BalusC 2010-06-14 13:04:54

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