On Thu, 2 May 2002, Warrick FitzGerald wrote:

> I would like to use cURL to login into a range of devices using Telnet and
> execute the necessary command to backup the device to a tftp server
> somewhere on my nextwork, is cURL the best way to do this (can cURL do this
> ?)? or should I be using something like Expect ?.

cURL can't even begin to compete with Expect when it comes to do automatic
stuff that emulates a range of user commands/inputs (and acts differently
depending on command output). curl's telnet support is limited to sending and
receiving data from stdin to network and from network to stdout.

> I'm sure their are a number of ways to accomplish this, I guess what I'm
> trying to figureout is, if this is the best way to accomplish what I'm
> trying to do (whithout sonding hours learning the hard way :) -- )?

You're looking for Expect. You could of course use curl from within your
Expect script, but then again you can use pretty much any telnet client. The
choice is yours.

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
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