Andy Hassall wrote:
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.
