launching telnet with scripted pword from browser?

[Earl Young]

     I am not 100% sure this answers your question, but you can use the 
     Unix freeware Expect program (there is an O'Reilly book about it) to 
     launch a scripted telnet session.
     
     The script can be taught to "interact" - which means it will leave the 
     connection in a form that a user can take over.
     
     Earl Young


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Subject: launching telnet with scripted pword from browser?
Author:  dvose at library.lib.binghamton.edu at INTERNET
Date:    5/15/97 11:25 AM


On our unix platform, we would like to provide a link to the telnet 
version of FirstSearch from Netscape. Launching telnet alone is simple, 
but we use a login scripts that inserts the required account number and 
password. 
     
     
>From the archives, I've seen discussion here on how this can be done on 
Windows and Mac platforms, but not unix. Is there a way to call telnet 
so that the script is invoked? I believe one possible solution would be 
to telnet to a different port on our server that is programmed to 
automatically log the user in. There appear to be security concerns with 
this approach.
     
Are there other possibilities?
     
Thanks for any advice.
     
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