Comment by exabrial
10 days ago
I [ab]use telnet regularly as a debugging tool than its intended purpose. Pretty handy tool to check TCP connectivity.
10 days ago
I [ab]use telnet regularly as a debugging tool than its intended purpose. Pretty handy tool to check TCP connectivity.
Yeah it's an easy way to check if a port is responding, and you can actually drive some protocols using telnet.
Eg: `telnet some.http.addr 80` and then type in `GET /index.html HTTP/1.0` and hit enter twice.
You can use it to test SMTP servers too.
https://i.vgy.me/JuGzDb.png (user input marked)
Wrong tool for the job. Netcat gives you raw TCP as stdin/stdout without injecting or interpreting control codes.