Faust,

While you are correct that you can't usually telnet into a webdserver, I don't think that's what spyhunt3r was referring to. Spyhunt3r said to telnet to port 80 on the website. That is the port where the browsers connect to to download the webpages, so it can't refuse your telnet connection if you're allowed to surf there. My personal preference would be to use netcat to connect to port 80. The main reason is that telnet clients send a bunch of garbage when they first connect to another system in an attempt to set up terminal type and other environment variables. Netcat doesn't send anything except the SYN and the ACK and then it waits for input from you. Not a huge difference, it's just that netcat is a littel cleaner.