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Re:Curl, 17 years old today by laumars on Friday March 20, 2015 @06:02AM (#9236838)
Sometimes just plain telnet. It wasn't pretty, but it worked:

    $ telnet 80
    GET /
It should be noted that the above isn't a strict HTTP request header, it's missing quite a lot of detail, but it works as an example.
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Re:Curl, 17 years old today by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday March 20, 2015 @11:57AM (#9238453)
Add two newlines and that is a perfectly valid HTTP/0.9 request.
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Re:Curl, 17 years old today by josteink on Friday March 20, 2015 @06:49AM (#9236947)
Pre curl/wget that was probably sufficient.

HTTP/1.1 wasn't around until 1996 so back then Host: headers weren't even "optional". They simply didn't exist yet.

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Re:Curl, 17 years old today by gsnedders on Friday March 20, 2015 @09:54AM (#9237692)
That's what HTTP/0.9 requests look like!
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