[SLL] telnet localhost

[Glenn Stone]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:41:13AM -0800, johnbaxterlists at mac.com wrote:
>
>On Feb 14, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Chuck Wolber wrote:
>
>>Yeah, I looked into those just before I started using SSH. Seemed  
>>weird to
>>me to go to all of that trouble to secure a protocol like telnet. It's
>>time to let telnet (and FTP) die a quiet death off on an ice flow
>>somewhere.
>
>Be careful what you wish for.  You're thinking of telnet, the way to  
>get a shell connection on another machine.
>
>But the protocol underlies a few little things like POP, IMAP, SMTP,  
>HTTP, LDAP, etc etc (almost anything that works over TCP rather than  
>UDP).  We really can't kill off that part.

Agreed.  Telnet as a client-side tool for manual debugging of text-based
protocols is just *entirely* too useful.  (Although 

$ openssl s_client -connect host:port

doesn't exactly suck, but it's a lot more complex....)

Telnet as a straight server, in and of itself, though?  D-E-D.  Kaputt, 
as the Baron said in finality.

-- Glenn