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TCP/IP Tests

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ETS-1000G

TCP Client

5. Open the TCP Client menu and press (Establish) to establish

a TCP

connection.

If a connection has been established successfully, a user may submit
commands of the respective protocol to request web pages from the
server. If problems occur during the connection establishment, an
error message will be displayed. Some error messages are listed in
Reference Tables on page 143.

Web pages are transmitted over HTTP. This protocol defines an

HTTP GET

request. It can be used for checking whether a server responds to HTTP
requests and obtaining content of the specified resource.

Host

The domain name or the IP address of the node.

TCP Port

The destination port number.

File

The name of the le whose content should be displayed in
the result window if an HTTP GET request has been han-
dled successfully.