Here's the output from the telnet session if anyone is interested (some lines are broken up so that they fit in the blogger template:
# telnet www.google.com 80My best guess is that google does some sort of IP address lookup to guess what country you are in and has got our IP address range wrong!
Trying 66.102.7.99...
Connected to www.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: http://www.google.co.nz/cxfer?c=PREF%3D:TM%3D1123089653: S%3D782JnXlZiZszEbUZ&prev=/
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=155668e6e3831c79:CR=1:TM=1123089653:LM=1123089653:S=xcmaIuHxEGXCUaQX; expires=Sun, 17-Jan-2038 19:14:07 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
Content-Type: text/html
Server: GWS/2.1
Content-Length: 217
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:20:53 GMT
Connection: Keep-Alive
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>302 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="http://www.google.co.nz/cxfer?c=PREF%3D:TM%3D1123089653: S%3D782JnXlZiZszEbUZ&prev=/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.
#
Maybe the Gangsta Programma can help explain, he works at Google.
3 comments:
Yes, the problem is that the rocket powered google-flopper was having an alpha flow pipe replaced at the local nurfhearder shop. While it was being repaired, they put me in charge of all URL based operations but I got drunk and fell asleep. Sorry about Dave, will you forgive me?
Ah, that clears it all up!
it works for: GET google.co.nz/ HTTP/1.1
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