Re: Telnet Protocol
Re: Telnet Protocol
- Subject: Re: Telnet Protocol
- From: Paul Ferguson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:34:21 -0800
On Saturday, October 26, 2002, at 03:51 AM, Chris Vincent wrote:
That is the command that comes right before the MUD asks for
your password. I've seen clients that change the input field to a
password field when the MUD asks for a password. I assume that this
command has something to do with it. How exactly do I know when a
password is being asked for? I know it doesn't have to do with parsing
for the word "password" or something like that, as the telnet program
accessed from Terminal.app recognizes a password request even under
special circumstances. If you could tell me how this works, I'd really
appreciate it. Thanks again!
Passwords are not part of the telnet protocol. The telnet program uses
the telnet protocol, but they are not the same thing. The telnet
program prompts for a Unix user name and password to log in to the
remote server after the telnet protocol negotiations have finished
(more precisely, the server sends these prompts and processes the
responses sent back). Many other applications (like MUDs) that use
telnet do the same, but the details of how and when this is done is
application-specific.
<fergy/>
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