Unfortunately I do mean an honest to goodness Telnet session, with logins, and ASCII screens collecting data and all that. The application local users use is "Reflection" that is set to use a VT102 emulation. Can you give some hints on where I, a telnet novice but very experienced cold fusion coder, could go to get some information to figure out how to do this.
Just so you know, that I'm not completely out to sea, I don't need to access the entire application on the HPUX through telnet. I just need to get to one screen, are repeatedly submit data to that screen for a "Batch" upload through the web interface. At least for now. If this is a success, then maybe more will be done with the web interface in the future. Thanks Ian Skinner BloodSource Sacramento, CA PS. I also sent you an e-mail through your website, but I thought I would also reply here to add to the knowledge of the list. PSS. FYI, the sad thing is that all the application on the HPUX does is submit the data to a Oracle database. And of course it would be a piece of cake to directly connect to the database with cold fusion, but do to the nature of the application and data, any program that modifies it must be certified by the federal government, which the HPUX application is. If I wrote a Cold Fusion tool to do this, this new tool would have to certified, a months long process, but by Telneting (is that a word?) to the certified program's interface, we bypass that annoyance. -----Original Message----- From: Lewis Sellers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:56 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Cold Fusion and Telnet On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:46:49 -0800, in cf-talk you wrote: >Here's an interesting one and conceivable not possible, but I thought I >would ask all the wise ones here on the CF-Talk list before I tell my client >NO!. Has anybody ever done anything connecting Cold Fusion and Telnet? >Basically the client wants to create a web-based telnet session to a back >end application on a HP L3000 Unix server so that every computer in the >organization doesn't have to have the customized telnet client installed and >maintained/upgraded on them. > >Is this even possible? If not, any other suggestions on how such a system >may be created? Anybody know of any tools/custom tags/CFX/applications or >something else that may do this already? As two people mentioned, it's fairly trival if you know the protocol the server in question is using a C++ COM object I wrote a few years back now. http://www.intrafoundation.com/tcpclient.html. Never got around to releasing the SSL-enabled version 3 of the software, so, FYI, if the communications stream is encrypted you'd propbably want to try using some of the pesky little native Java functions instead (or, I guess, $bribe$ me to finish v3 and make a cfm script for you while I'm at it. ;-) Btw, technically a "telnet' connection is a very different thing then most people think. You can talk to a SMTP mail server or FTP server with the tag using simple ASCII commands with COM (and some early versions of UNREAL before they switched over to using UDP for their game server like the rest of the sane world)... but this isn't a "telnet" connection. When I say "telnet" I mean an actually honest-to-goodness VT100-like ANSI-aware session. If you're wanting to do that now... well, that's a wee bit more of a hassle because of the binary control codes, etc. Just FYI. Hopefully, for your sanity, they don't really mean a "telnet" connection in that manner, but they mispoke about a simple ASCII command protocol like email, usegroups, ftp, http, etc use. --min >Thanks > >Ian Skinner >Web Developer >BloodSource >Sacramento CA Hm. I know you. Everytime someone downloads tcpclient, udpclient or ihtk the intrafoundation.com the site sends me an email. Saw the BloodSource domain go by yesterday. "BloodSource" is a name that you tend to remember. :) --min ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
