handling of CRLF in telnet
Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 16:49:57 UTC 2014
On 2014-03-17, John Spencer <maillist-busybox at barfooze.de> wrote:
> when using busybox telnet to manually connect to some service like
> SMTP, it doesnt change the \n it receives into an \r\n sequence
> before it sends the line over the wire.
Then busybox telnet is broken. The conversion of line endings to/from
\r\n is not optional. It is explicitly required by RFC854 (and later
confirmed by rfc5198 apendix C). Is there a bug open for this?
> is there some workaround to make this possible ? the gnu telnet
> program seems to automatically perform this transformation.
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