comps' "standard" group spring cleaning?

[Florian Weimer]

On 01/11/2013 02:14 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 01:35:46PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
>> Le vendredi 11 janvier 2013 à 11:24 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
>>> Le Jeu 10 janvier 2013 23:33, Bill Nottingham a écrit :
>>>
>>>> -      <packagereq>telnet</packagereq>
>>>
>>> Nowadays it's commonly used to test if a port is open, not to log in
>>> remotely somewhere. What will replace it in this role?
>>
>> why not bash :)
>>
>> $ cat < /dev/tcp/localhost/22
>> SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.1
>
>    But for remote
>
> $ telnet damn-web_server 80
> GET / HTTP/1.0
> ....

Furthermore, telnet performs LF -> CRLF translation, and some 
alternatives don't, at least by default.  This conversion is required 
for protocol-compliant HTTP, and some web servers insist on CRLF line 
endings.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team