Re: Telnet command question
"Vinoj" <Vinoj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I'm using async sockets, and overriding the OnReceive, but it doesn't
receive
anything. I also tried introducing sleep timers, but that didn't help it
either. Do you have to send it character by character? I'm sending the
entire command as a string.
You should be sending byte arrays, not strings, over sockets. You need the
right encoding as well. See Encoding.XYZ.GetBytes(string),
Encoding.XYZ.GetString(byte[])
I would venture a guess you may be sending unicode and the interspersed NUL
characters are confusing the other node.
"William DePalo [MVP VC++]" wrote:
"Vinoj" <Vinoj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I'm writing a software app to connect to a Telnet server. I can get
past
all
the negotiations, but when the commands are sent, it does not process
them
properly. It seems to only echo back the first character of the
command.
If
I am in debug mode and step through the commands, they work fine.
Ideas?
Thanks in advance...
On the basis of limited information it sounds like a timing problem. In
debug mode you run slowly enough for there to be characters available to
read, but in release mode you may be trying to receive before the other
side
is in a position to send.
Of course, that's a guess and I could be wrong.
Regards,
Will
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