Jeff Welty wrote: > I've searched around, and can't find any references to this, so I > believe I'm breaking new ground here. > > What I'd like to do, (because of the politics of my situation and the > near lack of good technical support in my organization which imposed > ridiculous constraints on application development), is this: > > On a client box (PC), using only Perl-TK and Net::telnet, open a > telnet connection to a server (running ORACLE), and issue the > commands and responses via the telnet session to another Perl script > which would run on the server. I'm envisioning the data being > encoded as CSV to be piped over the telnet session. The client is > restricted for readonly access, and the data is alphanumeric, no > blobs. > > Has anyone ever done, tried, or contemplated such a thing? > > No, I can't have my own process listening on a server port. Telnet or > talking directly to the ORACLE server are my only options. I know I > can go the ODBC driver route on the client PC, but that is ugly for > other reasons.
Just to totally rule out the easy way before getting complicated - is logging in via SSH rather than telnet also not an option? Tunnelling is pretty straightforward through SSH. -- Andy Hassall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) icq(5747695) (http://www.andyh.co.uk) Space: disk usage analysis tool (http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space)
