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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-02-05 22:35:21 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-02-05 22:35:21 +0000
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There's no use for a password on the -u switch, but a blank one will make
curl ask for one and you already entered the real password to kauth.
+TELNET
+
+ The curl telnet support is basic and very easy to use. Curl passes all data
+ passed to it on stdin to the remote server. Connect to a remote telnet
+ server using a command line similar to:
+
+ curl telnet://remote.server.com
+
+ And enter the data to pass to the server on stdin. The result will be sent
+ stdout or to the file you specify with -o.
+
+ You might want the -N/--no-buffer option to switch off the buffered output
+ for slow connections or if the output from the remote site is slow and/or
+ without newlines.
+
+ NOTE: the telnet protocol does not specify any way to login with a specified
+ user and password and thus curl can't do that automatically. To do that, you
+ need to track when the login prompt is received and send the username and
+ password accordingly.
+
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