In college, wow 23 years ago now, my school still had a Telnet interface for students to apply for spots in the classes they wanted for the following semester
It was quickly replaced by a web interface, which I promptly hacked to be able to take whatever classes I wanted with priority over everyone else, fun times
In case you are wondering, I let the admins know and they hired me to help them fix it
Still use Telnet on a regular basis to test connectivity to web servers or other services
Love connecting to port 80 and then typing:
HEAD / HTTP 1.0\n\n
It’s amazing to manually “talk” the protocol that browsers use to communicate with web servers
It was quickly replaced by a web interface, which I promptly hacked to be able to take whatever classes I wanted with priority over everyone else, fun times
In case you are wondering, I let the admins know and they hired me to help them fix it
Still use Telnet on a regular basis to test connectivity to web servers or other services
Love connecting to port 80 and then typing:
HEAD / HTTP 1.0\n\n
It’s amazing to manually “talk” the protocol that browsers use to communicate with web servers