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
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