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Re:Why HTTPS for Everything? by discreditable on Monday January 02, 2017 @11:41AM (#13302179)
> the ability to type commands to a web server over telnet as a learning experience will be a loss.

You can do this with openssl.

    openssl s_client -connect news.ycombinator.com:443
    GET / HTTP/1.1
    Host: news.ycombinator.com
Press enter twice and you'll get HTML.
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Re:Why HTTPS for Everything? by cxseven on Monday January 02, 2017 @12:30PM (#13302671)
There's also "socat", which is netcat with ssl support and it carries over its friendly command line.
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