Re: Connection through a telnet-gateway

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Michael Madore wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > 
> > Hmm, I'm not sure about the kind of thing your talking about, but I can
> > imagine three possibilities:
> > 
> > 1) A plain old telnet gateway (e.g. not a tn5250 gateway) that requires
> >    you to type in the name of the remote host at a prompt once you
> >    sign on.  This would
> 
> This is what tn-gw is.
> 
> Mike
> 

I'm dreaming up a quick hack to telnetstr.c to solve this problem...
 
I don't know if this is a good idea, or not... but I thought I'd drop it
into E-mail while I'm dreaming it... :)

1)  Have 2 new options for tn5250rc,  proxy_name, and proxy_prompt  
        (or maybe gateway_xxx instead of proxy_xxx)

2)  in telnetstr.c, in the telnet_stream_connect() function, have it
       check these options, and if they were specified, have it wait
       for the string given in "proxy_prompt", and when thats found,
       send the string in "proxy_name".

3)  then end the telnet_stream_connect function, and let it do the
       remainder of the work the way that it always does...

Perhaps that would solve Andreas' problem, and also add a nice feature
to tn5250?  

-Scott


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