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Stephen_Winter
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Jan 24, 2008

Setting UserAgent for Monitoring?

Hi All,     I'm not real familiar with the internal working of http, but I'm trying to setup a monitor on some web server to check for content and it's failing because the server checks Browser...
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hoolio
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Jan 25, 2008
telnet won't convert \r\n to carriage returns and line feeds, so that shouldn't work. If you want to use telnet to test, you can manually replace the \r\n's with the enter key.

 

 

You can use echo with the -e flag to convert the characters. You can then pipe that output to netcat to open a TCP connection to the server and send the string:

 

 

echo -e "GET /default.asp HTTP/1.1\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11\r\nHost: myserver.mydomain.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n" | netcat 10.10.10.10 80

 

 

You should see the server's response in the netcat output.

 

 

 

Aaron