Re: Connection through a telnet-gateway

Hi,

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Scott Klement wrote:

> 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?  

I would give it a shot, as long as it doesn't interfere with normal,
non-proxy functions.

Mike

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