I've got a Java telnet client that I can use from a browser which works great (nothing to do with CF), but it's all behind our firewall. Have you looked into these? I think there's a few of them out there.
Ian Skinner wrote: > Unfortunately I do mean an honest to goodness Telnet session, with logins, > and ASCII screens collecting data and all that. The application local users > use is "Reflection" that is set to use a VT102 emulation. Can you give some > hints on where I, a telnet novice but very experienced cold fusion coder, > could go to get some information to figure out how to do this. > > Just so you know, that I'm not completely out to sea, I don't need to access > the entire application on the HPUX through telnet. I just need to get to > one screen, are repeatedly submit data to that screen for a "Batch" upload > through the web interface. At least for now. If this is a success, then > maybe more will be done with the web interface in the future. > > Thanks > Ian Skinner > BloodSource > Sacramento, CA > > PS. I also sent you an e-mail through your website, but I thought I would > also reply here to add to the knowledge of the list. > > PSS. FYI, the sad thing is that all the application on the HPUX does is > submit the data to a Oracle database. And of course it would be a piece of > cake to directly connect to the database with cold fusion, but do to the > nature of the application and data, any program that modifies it must be > certified by the federal government, which the HPUX application is. If I > wrote a Cold Fusion tool to do this, this new tool would have to certified, > a months long process, but by Telneting (is that a word?) to the certified > program's interface, we bypass that annoyance. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lewis Sellers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:56 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Cold Fusion and Telnet > > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:46:49 -0800, in cf-talk you wrote: > > >>Here's an interesting one and conceivable not possible, but I thought I >>would ask all the wise ones here on the CF-Talk list before I tell my > > client > >>NO!. Has anybody ever done anything connecting Cold Fusion and Telnet? >>Basically the client wants to create a web-based telnet session to a back >>end application on a HP L3000 Unix server so that every computer in the >>organization doesn't have to have the customized telnet client installed > > and > >>maintained/upgraded on them. >> >>Is this even possible? If not, any other suggestions on how such a system >>may be created? Anybody know of any tools/custom tags/CFX/applications or >>something else that may do this already? > > > As two people mentioned, it's fairly trival if you know the protocol > the server in question is using a C++ COM object I wrote a few years > back now. > > http://www.intrafoundation.com/tcpclient.html. > > Never got around to releasing the SSL-enabled version 3 of the > software, so, FYI, if the communications stream is encrypted you'd > propbably want to try using some of the pesky little native Java > functions instead (or, I guess, $bribe$ me to finish v3 and make a cfm > script for you while I'm at it. ;-) > > Btw, technically a "telnet' connection is a very different thing then > most people think. You can talk to a SMTP mail server or FTP server > with the tag using simple ASCII commands with COM (and some early > versions of UNREAL before they switched over to using UDP for their > game server like the rest of the sane world)... but this isn't a > "telnet" connection. > > When I say "telnet" I mean an actually honest-to-goodness VT100-like > ANSI-aware session. If you're wanting to do that now... well, that's a > wee bit more of a hassle because of the binary control codes, etc. > Just FYI. > > Hopefully, for your sanity, they don't really mean a "telnet" > connection in that manner, but they mispoke about a simple ASCII > command protocol like email, usegroups, ftp, http, etc use. > > --min > > >>Thanks >> >>Ian Skinner >>Web Developer >>BloodSource >>Sacramento CA > > > Hm. I know you. Everytime someone downloads tcpclient, udpclient or > ihtk the intrafoundation.com the site sends me an email. Saw the > BloodSource domain go by yesterday. "BloodSource" is a name that you > tend to remember. :) > > --min > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
