Yes I can view the source: https://gist.github.com/2097197

nikcub · on March 19, 2012

    $ cat << ! | nc www.kurlak.com 80
    > GET /john/source.html HTTP/1.1
    > Host: www.kurlak.com
    > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Chrome/1
    > 
    > !
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:44:51 GMT
    Server: Apache
    Last-Modified: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:51:24 GMT
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 295
    Content-Type: text/html

    <!DOCTYPE html>

tantalor · on March 19, 2012

You do know about `curl`, right?

jrockway · on March 19, 2012

Why use a popular utility when you can write your own in CoffeeScript!?

cturner · on March 19, 2012

No need to be snide guys. If you don't know, you don't know. And there's no shame in trying.

Drbble · on March 19, 2012

Because coffeescript runs in any browser and is easier to install under more platforms and security configurations than curl? The browser is the VM of the Internet. It is more standard that POSIX now, for non-system level user space functions, at least.