Telnet Protocol Class Library

Establish an interactive terminal session with a remote host.

Reference

Library

Class Name CTelnetClient
File Name CSTNTAV6.DLL
Version 6.0.6000.0
LibID 404A2AA1-CF94-4312-95EC-BB24B5B8B835
Import Library CSTNTAV6.LIB
Dependencies None
Standard RFC 854

Remarks

The Telnet protocol is used to establish a connection with a server which provides a virtual terminal session for a user. Its functionality is similar to how character based consoles and serial terminals work, enabling a user to login to the server, execute commands and interact with applications running on the remote host. The class provides an interface for establishing the connection, negotiating certain options (such as whether characters will be echoed back to the client) and handling the standard I/O methods needed by the program. It also provides methods that enable a program to easily scan the data stream for specific sequences of characters, making it very simple to write light-weight client interfaces to applications running on the server. The CTelnetClient class can be combined with the CTerminalEmulator class to provide complete terminal emulation services for a standard ANSI or DEC-VT220 terminal.

This class supports secure connections using the standard SSL and TLS protocols. A SocketTools Secure Library Edition license must be purchased to use the security features in this library.

Requirements

This library is supported on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. If you are using Windows 2000, it is required that you have Service Pack (SP4) installed. If you are using Windows XP, it is required that you have at least Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed and it is recommended that you install Internet Explorer 7.0. It is also recommended that all critical updates to the Windows operating system be installed.

The SocketTools Library Edition libraries are compatible with any development environment that supports calling functions exported from a standard dynamic link library (DLL). This includes Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. If you are using Visual Basic 6.0 or Visual C++ 6.0, it is required that you have Service Pack 6 (SP6) installed. If you are using Visual Studio .NET 2003, it is recommended that you install Service Pack 1 (SP1). In all cases, it is recommended that you have the current updates for your development tools installed.

Distribution

When you distribute your application that uses this library, you should install the appropriate files in the same folder as your application executable. This library is a standard Windows dynamic link library and not a self-registering COM component.


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