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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=http+via+telnet https://duckduckgo.com/?q=http+via+telnet ;) Reasons this won't work: * Browser installers generally live on https. So, we'll cheat! scp ChromeSetup.exe mywebhost.besttldever:/var/www/html * Telnet displays the server's response on screen. .exe files are binary. I searched a bit and didn't find an obvious way to get the httpd to use some sort of 7-bit encoding. So, we'll cheat! $ base64 ChromeSetup.exe > ChromeSetup.exe.txt * Your console buffer is too short. You don't know how to terminate a telnet session. reconfigure... killall telnet... Let's do this! hobbes@metalbaby:~/scratch$ telnet mywebhost.besttldever 80 Trying 52.20.234.148... Connected to mywebhost.besttldever. Escape character is '^]'. GET /ChromeSetup.exe.txt HTTP/1.1 host: mywebhost.besttldever HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:04:16 GMT Server: Apache/2.4.16 (Debian) Last-Modified: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:59:21 GMT ETag: "132ad2-5232c470de522" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 1256146 Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/plain TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAA+AAAAA4fug4AtAnNIbgBTM0hVGhpcyBwcm9ncmFtIGNhbm5vdCBiZSBydW4gaW4gRE9TIG1v ZGUuDQ0KJAAAAAAAAADrS9CIryq+268qvtuvKr7bonhf24UqvtuieGHbuyq+26J4XtvXKr7b6Xtf 260qvtuKXVvbqSq+23LVddukKr7bryq/294qvtuieGXbriq+268qKduYKr7bil1g264qvttSaWNo ryq+2wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABQRQAATAEFAJf06FUAAAAAAAAAAOAAAgELAQwAACYBAADKDAAA ...ok, copy and paste the whole thing into a file, and... hobbes@metalbaby:~/scratch$ base64 -d ChromeSetup.exe.txt > ChromeSetup.exe.fromTelnet hobbes@metalbaby:~/scratch$ diff ChromeSetup.exe ChromeSetup.exe.fromTelnet hobbes@metalbaby:~/scratch$ Viola!