> From: Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:28:33 -0700 (MST)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: https/ssl
>
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, martin reed wrote:
>
>
> Maybe. Telnet is among the more complex of Internet protocols (I
> would even go so far as to call it baroque) and I'm not sure it will
> even be possible to support it completely until the MetaTalk sockets
> API includes support for out-of-band data. At the very least, you'll
> have to fake out the terminal type negotiation that takes place at the
> start of each telnet session. If you're interested in pursuing this,
> I recommend reading http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc764.html. That
> article, like most protocol specs, is pretty opaque and you'll
> probably have to read it several times before you start to understand
> how it's supposed to work. If during implementation you discover some
> key feature is missing from MetaCard's sockets implementation, just
> ask for it: Adding support for what is needed to implement these
> second-tier Internet protocols is a very high priority for the 2.4
> release.
I'd like to get "hold of" some telnet features in Metacard. In particular
the ability to get some environmental variables, and the location of some
key programs (ie "which perl" or which mc").
Does the FTP protocol allow setting permissions on a remote computer? And if
implementing telnet is problematic can any of these functions also be
implemented with telnet?
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