Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:50:44 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: talking with chat(1) like tool to a socket Message-ID: <571E7514.9070901@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <20160425213015.8db2da70ba7a489e9c19a1c4@yahoo.es> References: <20160425100944.GA3789@c720-r292778-amd64> <20160425213015.8db2da70ba7a489e9c19a1c4@yahoo.es>
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On 04/25/2016 02:30 PM, Eduardo Morras via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:09:44 +0200 > Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> In the GOD of modems and PPP I was used to use chat to talk and >> initialize modems based on some send/expect scripts... >> >> I would like to use the same logic of such script to talk to a remote >> server (IP+port) which understands commands in text and does respond >> with text. > > It'll be insecure, chat(1) uses plain text. Perhaps you want someting like telnet over tls or ssh? > >> Any idea before hacking the C-code of chat(1)? >> >> Thanks >> >> matthias > > --- --- > Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> Not exactly what you want, but have you looked at socat or netcat? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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