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Programming language: Crystal
Tags: Network Protocols    
Latest version: v1.0.1

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Telnet

Build Status

Telnet protocol support for Crystal Lang. Does not implement transport, just the raw protocol.

Usage

There are three processes that need to implemented to talk to a Telnet device or service.

  • Incoming data needs to be buffered, this handles protocol specific operations and unescapes incomming messages.
  • A callback for sending protocol level responses to the far-end
  • Preparing a message for transmission
    require "telnet"

    telnet = Telnet.new do |cmd_response|
      # This is a response to a request from the far end
      # it should be transferred to the remote
    end

    # Buffer incoming data for unescaping and command processing
    clear_text = telnet.buffer("a string or slice / Bytes")

    # Prepare data for sending to the remote (i.e. the application level protocol)
    # The prepare function adds the appropriate line endings, as per the telnet session negotiations
    encoded_response = telnet.prepare("hello")

An example with the IO implemented properly

    require "telnet"

    socket = TCPSocket.new("192.168.0.60", 23)

    telnet = Telnet.new do |cmd_response|
      # This is a response to a request from the far end
      socket.write cmd_response
    end

    # Buffer incoming data for unescaping and command processing
    encoded = socket.gets
    clear_text = telnet.buffer(encoded)

    # Prepare data for sending to the remote
    encoded_response = telnet.prepare("hello")
    socket.write encoded_response

If you are sending binary data to the remote you'll want to escape it

    data = Bytes[3, 255, 4, 40, 255, 30, 20]
    encoded_response = telnet.prepare(data, escape: true)
    socket.write encoded_response

    encoded_response # => Bytes[3, 255, 255, 4, 40, 255, 255, 30, 20, 13, 10]