Telnet Shell Help

[Mark Smith]

Stewart, I think you could do telnet over a socket connection. See  
"open socket", "write to socket" and friends in the docs.

Best,

Mark Smith

On 3 Oct 2009, at 22:28, RevList wrote:

> I need to write a very small utility that uses Telnet so that I can
> connect to a server on port 333 and login with credentials and issue a
> specified command recognized by the server.
> I can do this manually as follows from the command line on Windows or
> Terminal on OS X
>
> Telnet 192.168.168.19 333 <press enter on keyboard>
> this returns +0 and waits for me to enter my userID, so I enter
> MyLoginID <press enter on keyboard>
> this returns +0 again and waits for me to enter my password, so I  
> enter
> MyPassword <press enter on keyboard>
> and this again returns a +0 and another +0 on a new line indicating a
> successful entry.  Now all I need to do is enter my command which  
> looks
> like this
> Put User someuserID 1271 0 newpw <press enter on keyboard>
> and this confirms success with a +0
> I then enter q <press enter on keyboard>
> and I am out of Telnet
>
>
> So what I would like to do is write a simple Rev utility that will  
> pass
> all of the information, but all I can seem to do is to issue the first
> line and have no opportunity to enter the login credentials and my  
> special
> script
>
> As soon as I issue Shell("Telnet 192.168.168.19 333") it issues the  
> telnet
> command and opens the connection on port 333, but immediately after  
> that
> closes the connection and returns "Connection closed by foreign host"
> Can anyone help me here?  How can I keep the telnet session open so  
> that I
> can issue the remaining commands?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Stewart
>
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