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Making Web Requests with NetCat

Explore how to use Netcat to manually create HTTP web requests, including customizing headers such as User-Agent and Referer. Understand how this tool allows interactive communication with web servers and why modifying headers can be useful for testing or bypassing browser restrictions.

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Using netcat

We already used curl to grab web pages, but netcat can do that too. However, netcat makes us do it a little more interactively.

First, run this command:

$ nc www.google.com 80

A blank line greets us because netcat is expecting some ...