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Useful Uses Of netcat

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Falko Timme
Dec 5, 2008

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“6 Spoofing HTTP Headers

You can use netcat to request web pages:

nc ispconfig.org 80

You can then type in headers as follows:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: ispconfig.org
Referrer: mypage.com
User-Agent: my-browser”

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