On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:51:08 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi everyone: > >I posted here a couple days ago looking for some help creating a >Telnet-based chat server. You guys pointed me to Twisted, which has >solved most of my issues. > >However, what I want to do is analyze strings received for keywords >such as 'listcmds' and have the server return something to the client. >I know how to do that part, at least. > >The issue is, when I use clients like PuTTY, it returns a lot of what >appears to be formatting (e.g. if I typed Hello, it would return "\xff >\xfb\x1f\xff\ >xfb \xff\xfb\x18\xff\xfb'\xff\xfd\x01\xff\xfb\x03\xff\xfd\x03Hello".) > >How would I go about filtering this stuff out of the strings? The >thing is too, if I use other Telnet programs like Microsoft Telnet, >they don't have this formatting, so I want to be able to recognize if >it does have this formatting and act based on if it does or if it >doesn't. > >Any help is appreciated, I know I'm probably asking too many questions >already :)
If you're using Twisted's telnet implementation, then all of the telnet command sequences will be handled separately from the application data. It might help if you share some of your code. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
