Tried telnet from the Win2K box - received a 400 Bad Request with a follow up HTML page saying Invalid request - the request presented by your browser is invalid.
Tried on a Linux box within emacs, but got a connection closed after each telnet attempt so could not type the GET.
Tried from the Linux command line. Got the following text - sorry it took so long - had to type it out by hand and had problems trying to work out how to stop the HTML being rendered!!
[richard@Richard02 richard]$ su -
Password:
[root@Richard02 root]# telnet 192.168.100.2 8000
Trying 192.168.100.2...
Connected to Richard02 (192.168.100.2).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /acs-admin/ HTTP1.1
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Set Cookie: ad_session_id=60001%2c0%20%7b928%201036018738%20257EAD4B2AD05D4D9BA6
C534DDCE9352953F65AF%7d; Path=/; Max-Age=1200
Location: http://www.ecommerce.com:8000/register/?return_url=%2facs%2admin%2f
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:38:58 GMT
Server: AOLserver/3.3.1+ad13
Content-Length: 356
Connection: close
>!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"<
>HTML>
>HEAD>
>TITLE>Redirection
>/HEAD>
>BODY>
>h2>Redirection
>A HREF="http://www.ecommerce.com:8000/register/?return_url=%2facs%2dadmin%2f">The requested URL has moved here.
>P ALIGN=RIGHT>
AOLserver/3.3.1+ad13 on http://www.ecommerce.com:8000
>/BODY>
