You don't need to install a telnet server on your machine, I'm refering to using a telnet client from your workstation to send basic HTTP commands to the server without all the overhead and confusion associated with using a browser. ssh will not work, because it assumes an ssh server on the other end. In this case the other end is your AOLserver. A telnet client just opens a connection to the server and port you requested on the telnet command line:
$ telnet localhost 8000
This should work from the machine running the server.
