Re: IIS 5.1 not working Help

From: Jason Brown [MSFT] (i-brjaso_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:34:50 +1100

very odd.

I'm using the same, interactive

telnet
open 127.0.0.1 80
GET /

one enter key between each command. I get back expected HTML. I'll try your
way out. 

-- 
Jason Brown
Microsoft GTSC, IIS
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"Roland Hall" <nobody@nowhere> wrote in message 
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> "Jason Brown [MSFT]" wrote in message
> news:e665$3n$EHA.2804@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> : Just to jump back in, I just tested your assertions on telnet.
> :
> : 1. it doesn't need to be uppercase
> : 2. you don't need to press enter twice.
> :
> : I'm not sure what client you're using or indeed what HTTP server you
> tested
> : against but with the default Win XP client against IIS 5.1 neither of 
> the
> : above is correct. You're right in saying if it doesn't connect you can't
> : issue a GET request, but with the XP client you don't get a lot of 
> useful
> : feedback on whether it's connected or not by default. just so we're all
> : clear.
> :
> : what client are you using?
>
> I'm using the XP Pro SP2 Telnet Client.
>
> From a command prompt:
>
> telnet localhost 80
>
> If I do not press ENTER twice, it just sits there.  I read a document a 
> long
> time ago that ENTER twice was required.
> I also read UPPER CASE was required.  I'm not just making this stuff up.
> I'm just using it how it works for me.  Your mileage may vary.
>
> If I use lower case and enter: get / http/1.1
> I get this:
>
> HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.1
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:08:40 GMT
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 87
>
> <html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>The parameter is incorrect.
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Connection to host lost.
>
> If I use UPPER CASE and enter: GET / HTTP/1.1
> I get this:
>
> HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.1
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:09:24 GMT
> Connection: close
> Content-Length: 4009
> Content-Type: text/html
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
> <html dir=ltr>
>
> <head>
> <style>
> a:link                  {font:8pt/11pt verdana; color:FF0000}
> a:visited               {font:8pt/11pt verdana; color:#4e4e4e}
> </style>
>
> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">
>
> <title>The page cannot be found</title>
>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" Content="text-html; charset=Windows-1252">
> </head>
>
> <script>
> function Homepage(){
> <!--
> // in real bits, urls get returned to our script like this:
> // res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#http://www.DocURL.com/bar.htm
>
>        //For testing use DocURL =
> "res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#https://www.m
> icrosoft.com/bar.htm"
>        DocURL=document.URL;
>
>        //this is where the http or https will be, as found by searching 
> for
> ://
> but skipping the res://
>        protocolIndex=DocURL.indexOf("://",4);
>
>        //this finds the ending slash for the domain server
>        serverIndex=DocURL.indexOf("/",protocolIndex + 3);
>
>        //for the href, we need a valid URL to the domain. We search for 
> the
> # s
> ymbol to find the begining
>        //of the true URL, and add 1 to skip it - this is the BeginURL
> value. We
> use serverIndex as the end marker.
>        //urlresult=DocURL.substring(protocolIndex - 4,serverIndex);
>        BeginURL=DocURL.indexOf("#",1) + 1;
>        urlresult=DocURL.substring(BeginURL,serverIndex);
>
>        //for display, we need to skip after http://, and go to the next
> slash
>        displayresult=DocURL.substring(protocolIndex + 3 ,serverIndex);
>        InsertElementAnchor(urlresult, displayresult);
> }
>
> function HtmlEncode(text)
> {
>    return text.replace(/&/g, '&amp').replace(/'/g, '&quot;').replace(/</g,
> '&lt
> ;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
> }
>
> function TagAttrib(name, value)
> {
>    return ' '+name+'="'+HtmlEncode(value)+'"';
> }
>
> function PrintTag(tagName, needCloseTag, attrib, inner){
>    document.write( '<' + tagName + attrib + '>' + HtmlEncode(inner) );
>    if (needCloseTag) document.write( '</' + tagName +'>' );
> }
>
> function URI(href)
> {
>    IEVer = window.navigator.appVersion;
>    IEVer = IEVer.substr( IEVer.indexOf('MSIE') + 5, 3 );
>
>    return (IEVer.charAt(1)=='.' && IEVer >= '5.5') ?
>        encodeURI(href) :
>        escape(href).replace(/%3A/g, ':').replace(/%3B/g, ';');
> }
>
> function InsertElementAnchor(href, text)
> {
>    PrintTag('A', true, TagAttrib('HREF', URI(href)), text);
> }
>
> //-->
> </script>
>
> <body bgColor="FFFFFF">
>
> <table width="410" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5">
>
>        <td align="left" valign="middle" width="360">
>        <h1 style="COLOR:000000; FONT: 13pt/15pt verdana"><!--Problem-->The
> page
> cannot be found</h1>
>    </td>
>  </tr>
>
>  <tr>
>    <td width="400" colspan="2">
>        <font style="COLOR:000000; FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana">The page you are
> look
> ing for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily
> unavail
> able.</font></td>
>  </tr>
>
>  <tr>
>    <td width="400" colspan="2">
>        <font style="COLOR:000000; FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana">
>
>        <hr color="#C0C0C0" noshade>
>
>    <p>Please try the following:</p>
>
>        <ul>
>      <li>If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that
> it is
> spelled correctly.</li>
>
>      <li>Open the
>
>          <script language="JavaScript">
>          <!--
>          if (!((window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE") > 0) &&
> (window.navi
> gator.appVersion.charAt(0) == "2")))
>          {
>                Homepage();
>          }
>          -->
>          </script>
>
>          home page, and then look for links to the information you
> want.</li>
>
>                 <li>Click the
>                 <a href="javascript:history.back(1)">
>                 Back</a> button to try another link.</li>
>    </ul>
>
>    <h2 style="COLOR:000000; FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana">HTTP 400 - Bad
> Request<br>
>    Internet Information Services</h2>
>
>        <hr color="#C0C0C0" noshade>
>
>        <p>Technical Information (for support personnel)</p>
>
> <ul>
> <li>More information:<br>
> <a
> href="http://www.microsoft.com/ContentRedirect.asp?prd=iis&sbp=&pver=5.0&pid=
> &ID=400&cat=web&os=&over=&hrd=&Opt1=&Opt2=&Opt3=" 
> target="_blank">Microsoft
> Supp
> ort</a>
> </li>
> </ul>
>
>    </font></td>
>  </tr>
>
> </table>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> Connection to host lost.
>
> The 400 Bad Request is because I don't have a default document.
>
>
> -- 
> Roland Hall
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