Re: Has anyone...

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 03/16/01


On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Alex wrote:

>> Has anyone found an effective way to query the new connections
>> in order to determine the type and version of the telnet client
>> making the connection?
>
>The big problem with this is that there are a _whole_ lot of telnet
>clients that don't adhere to the RFC details on option negotiation.
>A few windows ones jump to mind immediately.

I think Daniel wrote something that was playing with Telnet negotiation.
It didn't work so well for the dumb clients, but was good for the more
adherent ones.  I checked his /~dkoepke page but got a 403 so I'm not sure
where he's stashing it lately.

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George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org

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