From: "Rick Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all! I'm working on my second ever perl script for a school > assignment and running into a quirk that I can't seem to figure out. > > If I telnet to an nntp server that requires authentication and issue a > command without authenticating first, I get an error message "480 > Authentication Required" > > However, in Perl, when I open a socket connection to a news server > that requires authentication, issue a command, and wait for a > response, everything hangs. It seems rather odd that it would hang > when telnet doesn't. Is there any way around this (without using the > NNTP module - I'm not allowed to)?
How are you issuing the command? Using Net::Telnet? Or Net::Cmd? Or raw socket()s? Are you sure you have the autoflush turned on for the socket? (see perldoc -q flush) Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>