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Development Tools HTTP Basics Introduction to HTTP Sending Data with a GET Request

Posted by Thomas Katalenas
Thomas Katalenas
11,033 Points

amazon telnet

I tried to get to amazon it said 301 error!!! does that mean free books?

telnet> open amazon.com 80                                                                                       
Trying 54.239.25.200...                                                                                          
Connected to amazon.com.                                                                                         
Escape character is '^]'.                                                                                        
Get /books?type=kindle&sort=popular HTTP/1.1                                                                     
Host:amazon.com                                                                                                  
Accept-Language: en-US                                                                                           

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently                                                                                   
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 01:15:48 GMT                                                                              
Server: Server                                                                                                   
Location: http://www.amazon.com/books?type=kindle&sort=popular                                                   
Content-Length: 264                                                                                              
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1                                                                      

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">                                                               
<html><head>                                                                                                     
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>                                                                             
</head><body>                                                                                                    
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>                                                                                       
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.amazon.com/books?type=kindle&amp;sort=popular">here                
</a>.</p>                                                                                                        
</body></html>
Richard Hall
Richard Hall
9,139 Points
Richard Hall
Richard Hall
9,139 Points

An http 301 error does not mean free ebooks, no. HTTP 301 is for permanent URL redirection.

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