Not true Don.
You can telnet to any port and in fact this is a common troubleshooting tool to ensure network connectivity.
Ripon I believe what you are looking for is the following;
telnet <IP> 80 (Which is the ip address of a web server I imagine)
GET / HTTP/1.0
That second line will return the path of the document root and show you the site as text. For example:
> telnet google.com 80
Trying 74.125.67.100...
Connected to google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:20:39 GMT
Expires: -1
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=561ccc9691c02b36:TM=1257859239:LM=1257859239:S=_ojfsikisFIzVBQF; expires=Thu, 10-Nov-2011 13:20:39 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
Set-Cookie: NID=28=Ow1Ko7ZMPy3OWe21o6E_SnNiTj78vSZr_77lS0XUjgbYJRG8gf121TGFuU7Gnbdtbg8Nv31DBqlUQGDvRRHy2_1wBfr_84Sb9lz99XqWhHIGaGqX9WahWLzlZ_kkWoPB; expires=Wed, 12-May-2010 13:20:39 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly
Server: gws
X-XSS-Protection: 0
<!doctype html><html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Google</title><script>window.google={kEI:"p2j5SvG-AtKUtgeLwJHPDA",kEXPI:"17259,21517,21766,22107,22451",kCSIE:"17259,21517,21766,22107,22451",kCSI:{e:"17259,21517,21766,22107,22451",ei:"p2j5SvG-AtKUtgeLwJHPDA"},kHL:"en"};
window.google.sn="webhp";window.google.timers={load:{t:{start:(new Date).getTime()}}};try{}catch(b){}window.google.jsrt_kill=1;
var _gjwl=location;function _gjuc(){var e=_gjwl.href.indexOf("#");if(e>=0){var a=_gjwl.href.substring(e);if(a.indexOf("&q=")>0||a.indexOf("#q=")>=0){a=a.substring(1);if(a.indexOf("#")==-1){for(var c=0;c<a.length;){var d=c;if(a.charAt(d)=="&")++d;var b=a.indexOf("&",d);if(b==-1)b=a.length;var f=a.substring(d,b);if(f.indexOf("fp=")==0){a=a.substring(0,c)+a.substring(b,a.length);b=c}else if(f=="cad=h")return 0;c=b}_gjwl.href="/search?"+a+"&cad=h";return 1}}}return 0}function _gjp(){!(window._gjwl.hash&&
window._gjuc())&&setTimeout(_gjp,500)};
- > telnet google.com 80
- Trying 74.125.67.100...
- Connected to google.com.
- Escape character is '^]'.
- GET / HTTP/1.0
- HTTP/1.0 200 OK
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:20:39 GMT
- Expires: -1
- Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
- Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
- Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=561ccc9691c02b36:TM=1257859239:LM=1257859239:S=_ojfsikisFIzVBQF; expires=Thu, 10-Nov-2011 13:20:39 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
- Set-Cookie: NID=28=Ow1Ko7ZMPy3OWe21o6E_SnNiTj78vSZr_77lS0XUjgbYJRG8gf121TGFuU7Gnbdtbg8Nv31DBqlUQGDvRRHy2_1wBfr_84Sb9lz99XqWhHIGaGqX9WahWLzlZ_kkWoPB; expires=Wed, 12-May-2010 13:20:39 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly
- Server: gws
- X-XSS-Protection: 0
- <!doctype html><html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Google</title><script>window.google={kEI:"p2j5SvG-AtKUtgeLwJHPDA",kEXPI:"17259,21517,21766,22107,22451",kCSIE:"17259,21517,21766,22107,22451",kCSI:{e:"17259,21517,21766,22107,22451",ei:"p2j5SvG-AtKUtgeLwJHPDA"},kHL:"en"};
- window.google.sn="webhp";window.google.timers={load:{t:{start:(new Date).getTime()}}};try{}catch(b){}window.google.jsrt_kill=1;
- var _gjwl=location;function _gjuc(){var e=_gjwl.href.indexOf("#");if(e>=0){var a=_gjwl.href.substring(e);if(a.indexOf("&q=")>0||a.indexOf("#q=")>=0){a=a.substring(1);if(a.indexOf("#")==-1){for(var c=0;c<a.length;){var d=c;if(a.charAt(d)=="&")++d;var b=a.indexOf("&",d);if(b==-1)b=a.length;var f=a.substring(d,b);if(f.indexOf("fp=")==0){a=a.substring(0,c)+a.substring(b,a.length);b=c}else if(f=="cad=h")return 0;c=b}_gjwl.href="/search?"+a+"&cad=h";return 1}}}return 0}function _gjp(){!(window._gjwl.hash&&
- window._gjuc())&&setTimeout(_gjp,500)};
Course it goes on from there. Alternatively you can replace GET with HEAD, POST etc.
Also, 110 is for pop3 which is a retrieval method for email, but not in and of itself email since you still send email out over 25 SMTP and can receive mail on imap port 220. Course there's replacements for those now as well which use ssl; imaps and pop3s.
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