utility that will dump a web page to std out?

[Björn König]

Yet some other solutions:

with bash:

( printf 'GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n' >&3 & cat 0<&3 ) 3<> 
/dev/tcp/www.freebsd.org/80

with netcat:

printf 'GET / HTTP/1.0' | nc www.freebsd.org 80


Björn