Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:01:58 -0500 From: Jan Beck <jan@janbeck.com> To: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: socket programming Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000515150136.00a5ba20@mail.janbeck.com> In-Reply-To: <391ee6760.158e@databus.databus.com>
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Thank you all for the info. I really appreciate the help JAn At 01:29 PM 5/14/00 -0400, Barney Wolff wrote: >Have you actually tried it, with a real telnet client? > >As I understood the question, it was: How does the server make the >client stop echoing to the user? And the answer is for the server >to tell the client that it will do the echoing itself, and then >not really do it. > >See RFC 857. > >Barney > > > Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 19:28:30 +0200 > > From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> > > To: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> > > Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: socket programming > > Content-Length: 660 > > > > Thus spake Barney Wolff (barney@databus.com): > > > > > Well, telnet is a funny protocol. Both answers have been wrong. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Interesting point. Unfortunately, since the server isn't going to echo > > back the chars, DON'T ECHO has the same effect. > > > > The difference between DON'T/WILL has effect if you assume, that the > > server echo's back each char it receives. Then client in WILL > > situation will echo, client in DON'T won't echo. But since the server > > won't echo anyways, there's no difference. > > > > You could have pointed that out without telling us we are wrong, which > > isn't true. > > > > Alex > > > > -- > > I need a new ~/.sig. > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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