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"Steve Aletto" <steve_alettoANTI@SPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
news:420b1193@newsgroups.borland.com...

> That's not enough as far as my tests could be worth. You
> should specify "Accept: text/html", otherwise you'd get a
> "406 Not Acceptable" error (the resource cannot be displayed).

Not true.  In fact, I telnetted into the offending server and sent no
headers at all except for the Host, and it returned the page as expected.

Attempt #1:

    GET /stefboombastic/default.htm HTTP/1.1

    HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
    Content-Type: text/html
    Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:21:31 GMT
    Connection: close
    Content-Length: 39

    <h1>Bad Request (Invalid hostname)</h1>


Attempt #2:

    GET /stefboombastic/default.htm HTTP/1.1
    Host: 65.182.102.101

    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
    Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:24:27 GMT
    Content-Length: 1635
    Content-Type: text/html
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
    Set-Cookie: BrinksterServer=4
    X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

    [HTML saying the page could not be found]


Attempt #2:

    GET /stefboombastic/default.htm HTTP/1.1
    Host: www14.brinkster.com

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:28:10 GMT
    Content-Length: 409
    Content-Type: text/html
    Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:29:42 GMT
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    ETag: "7a8af62f4118c01:30225"
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
    Set-Cookie: BrinksterServer=3
    X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

    [HTML saying the page was downloaded properly]


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