Using ChatGPT for security and introduction of AI security

Hi Dean,

I tested 'GET /' without any HTTP version specification against a default IIS 6.1 deployment and didn't have any issues:

% telnet 10.0.0.12 80
Trying 10.0.0.12...
Connected to 10.0.0.12.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /




Test page


Test

Connection closed by foreign host.

If you are running name-based virtual hosts, then you'll need to specify HTTP/1.1 as 'host' headers weren't introduced until version 1.1. I wrote an article a while back on better HTTP monitors (kind of a misleading title): http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/watkins/archive/2010/08/18/clean-up-those-webaccelerator-performance-reports.aspx

If you want a plethora of information on the differences between HTTP/1.0 and 1.1, look here: http://www8.org/w8-papers/5c-protocols/key/key.html

Hope this helps,

George