>> C:\>telnet www.blockedsite.com 80 >> GET / HTTP/1.1 >> Host: www.blockedsite.com >> Given the nature of Telnet, the request is sent to the server one >> character at a time; > Actually, in these situations, telnet works line-based. In those situations (where character-at-a-time has not been negotiated on), telnet is _supposed_ to work line-based. Unfortunately - see that "C:\>"? - most wintel telnets were written by people who either didn't understand the standard or were incompetent to follow it (or perhaps just couldn't be bothered? I dunno) and use character-at-a-time mode even when it hasn't been negotiated on. > That's also why backspace works (modulo matching terminal emulator > and stty settings). In wintel telnets, backspace often _doesn't_ work, because of exactly that, though it may look like it when typing because the echo of the 0x08 octet (whichever end generates the echo) makes the cursor move leftwards.... I know all this because I am server code wiz for a mud, and I've hacked in kludges to work around some of the most egregious problems I've seen in various telnets. (All the problematic telnets have come from an infamous company based in Redmond, oddly enough.) Mercifully, one of the other people who uses that mud (a) muds from Windows and (b) is technically clued, an odd combination but one that's useful when testing such things.) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouseat_private / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
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