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

Benny Ogidan
Benny Ogidan
17,948 Points
Posted by Benny Ogidan
Benny Ogidan
17,948 Points

Cannot use the workspace telnet

Connected to httpbin.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /get?
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Connection: close
Server: Cowboy
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:39:16 GMT
Content-Length: 0

Connection closed by foreign host.

3 Answers

Ruth O'Kelly
Ruth O'Kelly
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Ruth O'Kelly
Ruth O'Kelly
4,944 Points

Joel, how do you move onto the next line after the second command on Windows? (I'm using workspaces).

Joel Kraft
STAFF
Joel Kraft
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Joel Kraft
Joel Kraft
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hi Benny Ogidan,

Looks like telnet is working, but you're getting a message "Bad Request" back. You're sending the request:

GET /get?

The server is expecting a querystring to follow after that "?" at the end. Try sending something like

GET /get?company=Treehouse&city=Portland HTTP/1.1
Host: httpbin.org

(Be sure to follow up with the second line as Chris describes in the course.)

Hope that helps!