How to retrieve web documents with ...

Here is how to retrieve documents on a webserver with only the telnet comand...

first telnet to port 80 on the desired server....

telnet www.xonk.org 80

At the prompt type the following command...

GET /index.html HTML/1.0 <ENTER>
<ENTER>

You need 2 newlines to make this work.  So the "<ENTER>"'s mean use the 
Enter key on the keyboard.  You can substitute the /index.html for
/index.htm or what ever html you are looking for.