Can ping, but not telnet

[Pioneer Internet Technical Support]

I have DSL and Win XP. After automatically installing the latest windows
updates, web pages are not able to be displayed. Pings to number and name
are successful as well as a telnet to port 110 on a mail server. However, a
telnet to port 80 on a web server does not display any information. This has
been tested through the local ISP and also yahoo. There appears to be a
connection open on the telnet as the command window changes to a telnet
window. When typing "get" and pressing enter to view the source, the cursor
moves down to the next line and continues blinking without ever displaying
the source code for the site. This works fine through Win 2000 with all the
latest updates. On Win XP KB828035 has been removed from as was suggested in
an earlier post and also restored back to Nov. 13th with no avail. Anyone
with any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

 

[Paul Russell]

Depends on how your trying to telnet.

You can see this on web servers which may be looking at host headers in the
actual URI call into the webserver. Host headers mean your simply trying to
access a resource by name (e.g. www.microsoft.com) vs. by IP (e.g.
207.46.249.221).

Generally the telnet approach you mention is quite useful. The fact your
accessing a resource on port 80 is success but you need to assert your GET
call correctly and reference the URI, not just blindly hitting enter after a
blank GET request.