On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 08:04:40PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > tomas@tuxteam.de (12023-12-04): > > Which, in the case of interaction with HTTP (and most others) actually > > comes in handy. Those explicit \r\n get old pretty fast... > > Just hope you will not need to emit a LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH > DIAERESIS in ISO-8859-1. Most definitely :-) > Anyway, the treatment done by telnet is not bad per se, provided we know > (1) that they happen, (2) if we need them in our use case and (3) how to > turn them off. I guess most people who use telnet as a general network > client do not know either (1) nor (2) nor (3). Back then (TM) (must have been 1990ies or so) I knew. And I sometimes still miss the "easy interactivity". I haven't investigated whether there is an equivalent socat mode (say line-mode with readline editing or something). That would be a market niche, wouldn't it? Cheers -- t
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