Telnet

[Chris Liechti]

"Billy Ng" <evebill8 at hotmail.com> wrote in news:yAqm8.1723$Tk.98335
@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net:
> I am trying to write a telnet client program.  Here is the code:
> 
> ID = "123445"
> PASSWORD = "333"
> 
> try:
>    tn = telnetlib.Telnet(<host>)
>    tn.read_until("Please enter your id? ")
>    tn.write(ID+"\n")
>    tn.read_until("Enter your password? ")
>    tn.write(PASSWORD+"\n")
>    print tn.read_all()
>    tn.close()
> except:
>    tn.close()
>    print 'connection failed'
> tn.close()
> 
> It stops after the ID was written.  If I use the actual telnet 
> client, it returns "Enter your password? " after my ID is 
> submitted.  why does not tn.read_until() find  the "Enter your 
> password? " string ?  Is there any other way to handle the password 
> prompt?

don't write the entire prompt in read_all. insteand use
read_all("word?")
this way you circumwent problems with additional spaces, case atc.

and make sure that your server works with just a "\n", maybe it needs 
a "\r\n".

HTH chris

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>