A simple Python emulation of telnetting port 80 by HTTP requests directly to web servers.

Example

$ python telnet_emul.py

# telnetting google:
> telnet www.google.com 80
Trying 173.194.113.211...
Connected to www.google.com
Escape character is '^]'

# Actual HTTP request:
>> HEAD / HTTP/1.0

# Response:
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Location: http://www.google.com.ua/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=yqHGVJSuK6Gt8we944HQDw
Content-Length: 262
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:21:30 GMT
Server: GFE/2.0
Alternate-Protocol: 80:quic,p=0.02


Connection closed by foreign host.