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I am doing telnet as

telnet www.google.com 80 

It is showing Trying 216.58.193.164....Nothing happens after that. but when I tried

telnet www.google.com 443 

It works well and shows

Trying 216.58.193.68... Connected to www.google.com. Escape character is '^]'. 

My all outbound ports are open. Then what can be the reasons for this problem?

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  • If the message you are getting something like connection timed out after a while, your firewall ports are not as open as you might think. If this is a corporate environment, there might be a stateful packet inspection going on and telnet is not allowed in most everywhere I have been, in the past few years. Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 13:41

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What error symptoms do you see? When I issue that command, I see this:

% telnet www.google.com 80 Trying 216.58.218.164... Connected to www.google.com. Escape character is '^]'. 

That is correct behavior. The HTTP client must issue a command at this point in the protocol. If you type:

GET / HTTP/1.1 Connection: close Host: www.google.com 

And hit "return" twice, you will see HTML sent by www.google.com

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