You bring up an interesting point. However something
like mode line/character is only available to you once
the initial telnet negotiations have taken place. So
from a practical point of view I don't think that this
would help detect this.

--- Brett Lymn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to Randy Smith:
> >
> >.  The former
> >would likely arrive as a single packet per protocal
> message, while the
> >latter would likely arrive as a single character
> per packet (Telnet
> >generally does not buffer lines).
> >
> 
> Oh but it does if you do a "mode line" at the telnet
> command prompt.
> This allows you to compose the whole line at once
> and then send it
> which would invalidate the character at a time
> check.
> 
> Also, you don't need to use telnet to do the forgery
> anyway - you can
> use something like netcat which would bypass the
> telnet protocol check.
> 
> 
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