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discreditable on Jan 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why HTTPS for Everything?

> the ability to type commands to a web server over telnet as a learning experience will be a loss.

You can do this with openssl.

    openssl s_client -connect news.ycombinator.com:443
    GET / HTTP/1.1
    Host: news.ycombinator.com

Press enter twice and you'll get HTML.

cxseven on Jan 2, 2017 [–]

There's also "socat", which is netcat with ssl support and it carries over its friendly command line.

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