Hi all,

I want to control my VLC media player through it's telnet interface. When I
do this with Hyperterminal, it' ok. Now I want to do it with asinet. I do a
socket_open to localhost + serverport and I get a socket handle.

My question is, what I have to send now to the telnet interface to get the
question for the password. I cannot receive any information from the
interface.

Has anybody experience with this?

Arthur

Arthur Hunger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to control my VLC media player through it's telnet interface. When I
> do this with Hyperterminal, it' ok. Now I want to do it with asinet. I do a
> socket_open to localhost + serverport and I get a socket handle.
> 
> My question is, what I have to send now to the telnet interface to get the
> question for the password. I cannot receive any information from the
> interface.
> 
> Has anybody experience with this?
> 
> Arthur

Hi Arthur

I do a telnet emulation to a mainframe. What I think that you have to see is 
that on the beggining of the communication, the TELNET protocol does a sort of 
a balance or it tries to discover the terminal settings. It is something 
regarded to DO and DONT. Some thing like : I DO accept this and, I DO NOT 
accept that.

What I did here was : I got other terminal emulator (telnet client) and, I 
found out what it talked with the server, using a sniffer. Then I made my 
application do the same talk.

Do you have some other product that does that ? If not, you'll have to study 
the initial telnet communication. I dont know that in details.

If you want, send me a private email and I can send you my source code 4 you, OK ?

Hi Arthur,

Take a look at www.catalyst.com and download the freeware version of 
socketwrench (i think the release is 3.6).

There are plenty of sampled code (not only telnet), mostly visual basic 
but you can find all the information you need there.

Regards
Vagelis