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Justin F.
Justin F.

Reputation: 129

How to send a POST request through telnet

I want to know how to send a POST request to a server (e.g. Google Search). I already know how to send a GET request,

For example:

GET http://www.google.com/

I tried doing it like this:

POST /wikipedia

or

POST wikipedia

or

POST
/wikipedia

or 

POST Search: wikipedia

Anyone know how to send a POST request through telnet/cmd/batch?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 31652

Answers (2)

xitong
xitong

Reputation: 349

telnet httpbin.org 80

POST /post HTTP/1.1
Host: httpbin.org
Connection: close
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 11

{"test":true}

Upvotes: 5

Matias
Matias

Reputation: 191

Of course you can, don't listen to npocmaka! Telnet just opens a TCP connection to a port in a server and does nothing else. So, if you send the right commands (in this case HTTP request commands) the server will respond OK.

An example of what you have to write is:

POST /path/script.cgi HTTP/1.0
From: [email protected]
User-Agent: HTTPTool/1.0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 32

home=Cosby&favorite+flavor=flies
<PRESS ENTER KEY>

I think that you have to end with a new line for the command to get send.

Upvotes: 19

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