Telnet Shell Help

[Phil Davis]

Maybe it wouldn't be as hard if you opened telnet with "open process for 
update" and interacted with it that way. Then the socket-handling 
business would be done by the OS. Recently Josh Mellicker showed me how 
to do that with 'curl' using 'open process for read' and it made it 
super easy.

Phil Davis


Mark Smith wrote:
> 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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