# http test

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/http-test/82736>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 20, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/http-test/82736 "2001-09-20T03:50:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/http-test/82736/1 "2001-09-20T03:50:13Z")

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\<A HREF=“[http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/ubbcode.html](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/ubbcode.html)” target=\_new\>Click here to see all the UBB codes.\</A\>\<br\>  
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**Author:** ![Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/http-test/82736/2 "2001-09-20T03:51:24Z")

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\<A HREF=“[http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/ubbcode.html](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/ubbcode.html)” target=\_new\>Click here to see all the UBB codes.\</A\>\<br\>  
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**Author:** ![Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/http-test/82736/3 "2001-09-20T03:52:27Z")

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\<IFRAME FRAMEBORDER=1 ALIGN=CENTER width=100% HEIGHT=200 SCROLLING=YES SRC=“[http://www.straightdope.com/](http://www.straightdope.com/)”\>\<br\>  
\<A HREF=“[http://www.straightdope.com/](http://www.straightdope.com/)” target=\_new\>Test.\</A\>\<br\>  
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**Author:** ![Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/http-test/82736/4 "2001-09-20T03:53:32Z")

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/http-test/82736/5 "2001-09-20T03:54:43Z")

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Quoting from the “Forum Rules” list on nearly every SDMB page:

**Posts: HTML code is Off**

Only vB coding is allowed. You can see how vB coding works [SDMB FAQ](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=faq) See the section “Can I use HTML Code in posts?”

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator

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**Author:** ![Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/http-test/82736/6 "2001-09-20T03:54:43Z")

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[IFRAME] FRAMEBORDER=1 ALIGN=CENTER width=100% HEIGHT=200 SCROLLING=YES SRC=“[http://www.straightdope.com/](http://www.straightdope.com/)”\>[/IFRAME]

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**Author:** ![Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/http-test/82736/7 "2001-09-20T03:56:19Z")

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\<font size=7\>You bastered! You’ll never get it right.\</font\>\<br\>

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**Author:** ![Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/http-test/82736/8 "2001-09-20T03:57:20Z")

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Thankx Tuba.

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**Author:** ![Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/http-test/82736/9 "2001-09-20T03:59:04Z")

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Feel free to delete this thread.

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**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/http-test/82736/10 "2001-09-20T04:33:51Z")

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Incidentally, you seem to be testing html, not http here. Http is a protocol that deals with how a web browser communicates with a web server. For details, refer to [RFC 2616](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt), where http is defined.

vBulletin replaces all angle brackets with \< or \> so that html can’t work. Since this is done before smilies are parsed, and the final semicolon isn’t really necessary, this means that typing \< **; or \>** ; creates \<; or \>; respectively.