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bbelcher · Contributor Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 172

I'm receiving a weird error and I believe it's due the blank line in my telnet session but I'm not sure. If I try connecting to the same server via port 25 everything works fine but the server is not set to display a welcome message screen. Any ideas how to ignore the first 2 lines or something. Any ideas? Thanks

-- this is what I'm receiving through the VDS Telnet session --

ÿýÿý ÿý#ÿý'ÿý$

-- below is what a telnet window looks like in a windows telnet session using the windows telnet.exe --

"black line" or "null"
"blank line" or "null"
************************************************************
*
* your connected to etc etc etc.
*
************************************************************
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jules · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 7:51 pm Post subject:

Ah. This is a real Telnet server and the stuff it is sending is configuration data about what terminal emulation to use and stuff like that. There is a handshaking protocol you can use to get it to send plain text. It's a very long time since I came across that, so I can't remember the details of what you have to do, but you should find a lot of information about the telnet protocol on the internet.