How to send an HTTP request using Telnet [closed]

Question

How to get a web page's content using Telnet?

For example, the content of https://stackoverflow.com/questions.

Answer 1

You could do

telnet stackoverflow.com 80 

And then paste

GET /questions HTTP/1.0 Host: stackoverflow.com   # add the 2 empty lines above but not this one 

Here is a transcript

$ telnet stackoverflow.com 80 Trying 151.101.65.69... Connected to stackoverflow.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET /questions HTTP/1.0 Host: stackoverflow.com  HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 ... 

Answer 2

telnet ServerName 80

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GET /index.html↵ ↵ 

↵ means 'return', you need to hit return twice