I've made some tests (with telnet and ethereal) and found out that if
I change the
HTTPSocket class>>httpGetDocument: args: accept: request: to not use
the port in the
GET requeast (Host: www.btrl.ro instead of Host: www.btrl.ro:80)

sock sendCommand: 'GET ' , page , ' HTTP/1.0' , CrLf
					, (mimeType
							ifNil: ['']
							ifNotNil: ['ACCEPT: ' , mimeType , CrLf]) , 'ACCEPT:  
			text/html' , CrLf , HTTPBlabEmail , requestString , self
userAgentString , CrLf , 'Host: ' , serverName , CrLf.

it works. This is strange because I do not have this problem from my
work network, only from home.

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:00:12 +0200 (EET), cdan at savatech.ro
<cdan at savatech.ro> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: ERROR 'server aborted early'
> From: Matthew S. Hamrick <matthew.hamrick at gibson.com>
> Date: Tue, December 14, 2004 6:19 pm
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>          <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> 
> Hi Dan,
>         I don't have the bandwidth to track this down completely... But I
> might be able to give you a few pointers. From the unix command line, I
> did a:
> 
> telnet www.btrl.ro 80
> 
> and when I was connected, issued the following:
> 
> GET /ro/istoric.php?vid=2 HTTP/1.0
> 
> Instead of getting a response, the server closed the connection. My
> guess is that this server really wants to see certain headers and if it
> doesn't see them, it drops the connection as a security measure. You
> might want to try the retreiveContentsAccept: or retreiveContentsArgs:
> accept: methods and experiment with headers. If you really want to get
> into it, you could use ethereal to find out what headers your web
> browser is providing the server and simply add those to your request.
> 
> Sorry I don't have a lot of time to devote to this... but I thought I
> would respond as it's similar to an issue I had earlier. The paragraph
> above is how I solved my problem.
> 
> /etc
> Matt H.
>