> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel_at_haxx.se]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 6:26 PM
> To: Warrick FitzGerald
> Cc: Curl Mailinglist
> Subject: Re: Using cURL to backup switches
>
>
> 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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Kermit might also be a good prospect. It has very extensive
scripting capabilities.

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/index.html

news:comp.protocols.kermit.misc

- Rich

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Received on 2002-05-03