On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 Stefanie.Thies_at_lycos-europe.com wrote:

> One rather stupid question:
> I want to connect to a telnet server on a specific port.
> How hav I to write the curl statement?
>
> I tried:
> a) curl telnet://<the server>:<the port>

That's how it is supposed to work. Hm, well I tried this right now and it
works for me.

> b) curl telnet://<the server> <the port>

This is wrong.

> But both did not work.

What happened when you tried the first approach? Try adding -v, it usually
gives some more hints.

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