telnet

[Richard L. Hamilton]

Unless you specifically need telnet protocol (inline IAC ... commands, and escaping them in data, and a few other oddities), netcat (nc6 is an IPv6-capable
clone port) can do most of that.

sh-3.2$ nc6 www.google.com 80
nc6: using stream socket
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:00:27 GMT
Expires: -1
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info."
Server: gws
X-XSS-Protection: 0
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Set-Cookie: 1P_JAR=2019-07-05-10; expires=Sun, 04-Aug-2019 10:00:27 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
Set-Cookie: NID=187=bRMcl4KM-EHmUPMGiVhwFhhjX3zFFzlJ7cB0iyJZ4zamsQ8q1vyxjJj9wp8G9XTFuB__2bBG9AOl5js8bowufSceDN_2J4yjQVHCtUhsM4lvm7rHs60u2q2DqN_8K4l7SAUHdpCGZ4PX6-RJ4fPJnpbItcpbUbiRO8sMyMAKFYI; expires=Sat, 04-Jan-2020 10:00:27 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly
Accept-Ranges: none
Vary: Accept-Encoding


> On Jul 5, 2019, at 05:53, Balthasar Indermuehle <balt at inside.net> wrote:
> 
> Telnet is a fantastic network service debugging tool, hence should always remain included. Eg telnet xyz 80 to check if the web server is responding, whether there’s a sensible response etc. 
> 
> But yes, using it as it’s original intent is hopefully not supported anywhere. That’s what ssh is for these days. 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Balthasar
> 
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 at 19:46, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net <mailto:rlhamil at smart.net>> wrote:
> Oops, inetutils can provide at least most of the daemons, if one uses the non-default +server option.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Dr Balthasar Indermühle
> Inside Systems Pty Ltd
> 17 Gottenham Street
> Glebe NSW 2037, Australia
> t: +61 4 2791 2856 <>
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