I connected to www.google.com on port 80 (HTTP), and sent this request: OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1 I got back this response: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:16:58 GMT Content-Type: text/html Server: GFE/1.3 Content-Length: 3156 400 Bad Request
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