Using /dev/tcp instead of wget
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Why does this work:
exec 3<>/dev/tcp/www.google.com/80 echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\n\n">&3 cat <&3
And this fail:
echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\n\n" > /dev/tcp/www.google.com/80 cat </dev/tcp/www.google.com/80
Is there a way to do it in one-line w/o using wget, curl, or some other library?
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