Re: compressed through 'node'

From: Tomi Manninen (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 03:07:19 EEST

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    On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Roger Harris wrote:

    > As far as I know, telnet does have a "BINARY" mode which can be invoked
    > manually. Does this allow telnet to be completely transparent? If so,
    > perhaps the answer is to make the node invoke telnet in this way, if a
    > specific command is sent to the node.

    The TELNET protocol is actually pretty complex protocol. Node supports a
    very minimal subset of the protocol and FBB supports even less...

    I'm very reluctant to extend the TELNET handling of node as it is _not_
    very simple at least if you want to do it well (and there is no excuse for
    doing it otherwise... :)

    > Alternatively, make it always behave
    > like this if the escape character has been disabled. I can't think of a
    > reason why you would want to disable the escape character and NOT want the
    > connection to be transparent.

    This is true. Right now I can think of one situation where node behaviour
    could be improved. I need to review the code and see whether it could
    solve at least some problems. 

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