Headless Amazons!

[Rodent of Unusual Size <CO...@PROCESS.COM>]

    Here's a fun one:

% HEAD http://www.amazon.com/
405 Method Not Allowed
Date: Wednesday, 26-Nov-97 21:08:41 GMT
Server: Netscape-Commerce/1.12
Allow: GET, POST
Content-Type: text/html
Client-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 21:12:43 GMT
Set-Cookie: session-id-time=881136000; path=/; domain=.amazon.com; expires=Wednesday, 03-Dec-97 08:00:00 GMT
Set-Cookie: session-id=8342-7905958-443901; path=/; domain=.amazon.com; expires=Wednesday, 03-Dec-97 08:00:00 GMT
Set-Cookie: group_discount_cookie=F; path=/; domain=.amazon.com; expires=Wednesday, 03-Dec-97 08:00:00 GMT

%

    Cookies out the wazoo, but they won't even allow a HEAD of their
    front page.  {Sigh}

    #ken    P-)}

Re: Headless Amazons!

[Alexei Kosut <ak...@leland.Stanford.EDU>]

On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:

>     Here's a fun one:

Wow. That's an old version of Netscape's server, too. Howevver, I'm
wondering if your HEAD script is prettying up the output; when I try using
telnet, I get "HTTP/1.0 405 Because I felt like it.". Which has rather
a very different feel than "405 Method Not Allowed" :)

Also, have you ever tried a "whois amazon.com"? Wow, that's a lot of
domains...

P.S. Thanksgiving break starts for me tomorrow, and I'm going home, so I
may be out of touch (or maybe not) for a few days.

-- Alexei Kosut <ak...@stanford.edu> <http://www.stanford.edu/~akosut/>
   Stanford University, Class of 2001 * Apache <http://www.apache.org> *