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Re: Telnet Networking Example
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Re: Telnet Networking Example


  • Subject: Re: Telnet Networking Example
  • From: DerNalia <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:24:28 -0500

I have all this code I got from the Apple Developer site, It all sets up correctly. Assuming I can trust my NSLogs, I should be connected to my telnet server.

So, lets I say I want to send the command "!COMMAND ARG"


Since this:
- (void)stream:(NSStream *)stream handleEvent:(NSStreamEvent)eventCode
sounds like it should do what I want, and NSStreamEvent is an NSUInteger, do I just break up the command char by char, and send it to this method?



On Jul 22, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:


On Jul 22, 2009, at 12:41 PM, DerNalia wrote:

I've been looking at NSStream for interfacing with a server that accepts telnet connections, and haven't made much progress in my understanding of how exactly to send / receive the commands / responses.

Telnet is basically just sending keystrokes over the socket. So you open the socket, send your command as ASCII bytes over the output stream followed by a newline, then receive the response from the input stream.


So I was wondering if there was is a framework or something that is a bit easier to use than NSStream...

What are you having trouble with in particular? Have you looked at Apple's sample code, especially CocoaEcho?



Eli Bach wrote:
You could try using libcurl. It supposedly has some support for telnet, but you'll probably still have to wind up doing some parsing of the data the server returns.

I don't think this would be any different than using NSStream, except for the impedance mismatch of talking to a raw C API...



Lance Robinson wrote:
You might be interested in using /n software's IPWorks product:

A $300 proprietary library seems kind of like overkill for a newbie who just wants to send and receive telnet data. :)


—Jens


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