On Wed, 27 Jun 2018, Aleksandar Lazic wrote:

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.

It seems like a bit overkill to keep support for a protocol like that simply for checking connectivity.

Using another protocol scheme would give you almost the same functionality, like:

  curl -v --max-time 5 ftp://...:port

... the difference is only what happens when it actually connects.

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