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Article:		Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 1
Subject:		Safari
Date:		2005-01-04 17:59:23
From:		yizzle123
Can I open safari with the terminal? Also can I read whats happening when I go to a website, from the terminal, in code?

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• Using terminal to "see" a web request
  2005-06-07 14:24:23  xurizaemon [View]
  
  
  Ok, you can do this. (Damn, I wish I hadn't run out of ttys so I could test it!)
  
  
## opens telnet connection to webserver on port 80 (HTTP)
$ telnet webserver.com 80
## webserver prints connection open message here
HEAD /file.html HTTP/1.1
Host: webserver.com
## webserver prints headers returned from URL
## webserver.com/file.html
## or you can retrieve the file like so
GET /file.html HTTP/1.1
Host: webserver.com
## webserver prints the raw HTML (or other) file
## to your terminal

  
  Using the HTTP Headers extension in Mozilla is easier though ;)
  
  

• Safari
  2005-06-07 14:18:59  xurizaemon [View]
  
  
  Yes. In Terminal, you can use the "open" command to open files, URLs, or applications.
  
  ## launches a specific application
## (maybe can give URL or file as argument?)
$ open /Applications/Safari.app

## goes to www.oreillynet.com
## in your preferred browser
$ open http://oreillynet.com/

## opens /Documents/MyFile.txt in your home dir
## using default text editor
$ open ~/Documents/MyFile.txt

## opens your Pictures folder in Finder
open ~/Pictures
  
  Pretty easy, huh? Basically, the 'open' command simulates what you'd normally do with a double-click or CMD+O.

• Safari
  2005-02-10 11:39:18  endian [View]
  
  
  open safari from terminal: open -a Safari
  
  I don't know what you mean by your latter question. Look at something like tcpdump, or telnet to the web site on port 80 telnet www.thesite.com 80