Telnet Protocol Control

Establish an interactive terminal session with a remote host.

Reference

Control Information

Object Name TelnetClientCtl.TelnetClient
File Name CSTNTAX6.OCX
Version 6.0.6000.0
ProgID SocketTools.TelnetClient.6
ClassID 2F2E0B1B-CC0A-4E70-A8F0-96EBF187A9AB
Threading Model Apartment
Help File CST60CTL.CHM
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 Telnet control 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 functions needed by the program. The control 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. This control can be combined with the Terminal Emulation control to provide complete terminal emulation services for a standard ANSI or DEC-VT220 terminal.

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

Requirements

This ActiveX control 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 Visual Edition components are compatible with any development tool that fully supports COM (Component Object Model) and the ActiveX control specification. 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 or Visual Studio 2005, 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 an application that uses this control, you should install the appropriate file in the Windows system directory. ActiveX controls must be registered on the target system by the installation program before they can be used by an application.


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