Re: can the telnet command be automated? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: can the telnet command be automated?
From: "Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:28:55 -0500
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Hello, all:

This thread seems to lack some possibly important historical background...

Telnet was one of the first TCP/IP applications available, when the Internet was first bursting onto the scene. So, it is no surprise that many other TCP based protocols (such as SMTP, etc.) were built in such a way that they could be easily "debugged" using Telnet.

Hence, anything you can do with Telnet, you can also do directly, by writing a TCP/IP sockets application.

Does that help, at least, conceptually?

All the best,

Mark S. Waterbury

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