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I think it's a fun/educational process to interact with some daemons over telnet. You can telnet into port 80 and create an HTTP request, for instance. Certif
by blhack 9y ago
I think it's a fun/educational process to interact with some daemons over telnet. You can telnet into port 80 and create an HTTP request, for instance.
Certification negotiation happens before the GET request happens, which means that the "URL" (or, rather, everything after the domain) is encrypted.
You can also see some of this process with curl. So:
curl -vvv https://www.google.com/
- gol706 9y agoTelnet is a great way to realize that HTTP is just some simple text commands and not some mysterious binary protocol. WireShark also provides a good visualization of the HTTPS negotiation process and the various layers of HTTPS requests and responses. It does take a lot more to figure out than telnet though.