Re: Telnet

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Charles Curley (12023-12-03):
> True. None the less, there is at least one perfectly good use for
> telnet: testing connections to servers.

Wrong. The telnet client is not entirely transparent, as the telnet
protocol defines an escape octet to introduce commands.

If you want to test a network protocol, you should use a really
transparent client. Traditionally people use netcat (nc), but it handles
EOF approximatively.

For that use, I strongly recommend socat.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George