Why does telnet command show "400 Bad Request" for https connections?
Issue
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Why does telnet command show "400 Bad Request" for https connections?
$ telnet example.com 443 Trying <IP Address of example.com> ... Connected to example.com Escape character is '^]'. GET HTTP/1.1 HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2017 10:45:29 GMT Server: Apache Content-Length: 362 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>400 Bad Request</title> </head><body> <h1>Bad Request</h1> <p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br /> Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.<br /> Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.<br />
Environment
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Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS)
- 3.0.3
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 7.x
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