Using Telnet in Windows 10?

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I'm leanirng some HTTP and need to use Telnet for testing purposes. I tried almost every possible input I found on the Internet, but it doesn't help, I first open Telnet command window, then Enter: telnet www.bing.com 80 but when I hit Enter, it says:

Invalid Command. type ?/help for help

In the help menu there is o to

open hostname [port] ----->connect to hostname (default port 23).

So I tried o www.bing.com 80 but it just says

Connecting To www.bing.com...

it last long, and then fails. I also tried combining telnet command with o, didn't resolve also.

mshwf

Posted 2016-12-05T01:26:52.970

Reputation: 223

It has been several days since we heard from you. Have you made any progress? – Run5k – 2016-12-09T21:09:50.107

Mohammed, any feedback? – Run5k – 2016-12-23T23:13:45.297

It doesn't work for me. I needed telnet in particular. – mshwf – 2016-12-25T10:36:47.250

Just to double-check, did you ensure that you enabled telnet on your Windows 10 computer? If so, the command telnet google.com 80 should definitely work.

– Run5k – 2016-12-25T13:50:04.903

And the command telnet google.com 80 doesn't work? If not, you might be encountering some type of port/firewall issue. – Run5k – 2016-12-25T14:18:24.140

Answers

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If you are going to utilize telnet, you don't need to type the www with the host name. Using telnet google.com 80 should suffice.

To be honest, if you are on a Windows 10 machine it would probably be easier to use the similar capability with the Test-NetConnection function that is built into PowerShell:

PowerShell

Run5k

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