Reading and Writing with Popen.

[Anon]

I have been trying to get a PHP script that interacts with a telnet session. I have tried user fsockopen("localhost" , "23") and popen ("/usr/bin/telnet localhost", "?") [where the ? means I have tried r, w, w+ and others] neither of which produce the results I am looking for.

Can someone offer some help on how to interact with a socket connection to the telnet server or with a telnet process?

Thanks.

[Anon]

Hmm,

This has never worked for me either. Here is something you might want to try:

fsockopen
socket_set_timeout

Whenever I try to read a line from the telnet login, it hangs. I'm assuming that this is because it can't recognize EOF (or end of socket). So maybe socket_set_timeout will read until a timeout.

I'm planning to write a telnet app myself. I'll post a message if I have any luck :-)

-sridhar