HTTP Requests

An HTTP request consists of a line of text broken into three parts:
- The type of action, or method, the client would like to do,
- The resource the client would like to access, and
- The version of the HTTP protocol being used.
You can make a GET request without servlets through a telnet connection. For example:
```
   telnet redrock.d.umn.edu 8081  
```
After the connection is made, type the following:
```
   GET /jspbook/welcome.html HTTP/1.0  
```