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Re: Using libcurl to send shell commands through SSH?

From: Aleksandar Lazic <al-curllibrary_at_none.at>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 23:30:57 +0200

Hi.

On 27/06/2018 09:28, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Jun 2018, Dan Fandrich wrote:
>
>><cough> telnet <cough>
>>
>>Actually, removing telnet support altogether might be reasonable in
>>the next major curl version bump.
>
>I fully agree. Telnet was never a good match and it's always been
>quirky to use with curl...

Please don't do this.

I use `curl -v --max-time 5 telnet://...:port` very often to check
network connectivity as because the simple telnet tool isn't installed
by default on the most distributions.

Jm2c

Regards
Aleks

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Received on 2018-06-27