Open and Read Webpage using Telnet

telnet www.google.com 80 [CR/LF]
Trying 64.233.167.104...
Connected to www.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1 [CR/LF]
Host: www.google.com [CR/LF][CR/LF]

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=1419ca500e7b105b:TM=1100715011:LM=1100715011:S=wgU7QYb0rFA5D1n7; expires=Sun, 17-Jan-2038 19:14:07 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
Server: GWS/2.1
Content-Length: 1888
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:10:11 GMT


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Here is forum link explaining how to open and read webpage using telnet protocol

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=27145