Message-Id: <199603052321.RAA08170@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:13:10 GMT-10 From: Graham Rusher <mailto:G.RUSHER@CENTRAL1.LIBRARY.UQ.OZ.AU> Subject: Telnet destinations To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
Mike This maybe of interest..... Graham---------- original message follows ---------- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 14:51:22 -0800 From: Anacortes Library <mailto:alib@SOS.NET> Subject: Re: Telnet destinations
We have been evaluating the NetTerm telnet software. It is easy to set up so that Netscape uses it as the telnet application. It is easy to type in you telnet address in its "phone book" and it is easy to set up a log in script both for staff and for the public. The script can be "hidden" so that there is pretty good security. You can download the shareware from the NetTerm Web site. It also has a number of other useful features.
Doug Everhart, Anacortes Public Library
>Has anybody come up with a viable solution for handling scripted telnet
>connections through a Web browser?
>
>We have defined a number of "Information Gateway" resources in our OPAC,
>most of which are restricted to use by current students, faculty, and
>staff. We handle connections to these by launching telnet on our host,
>then running a connection script that takes care of login/password
>verification required by the remote host (suppressing all of this
>information from display to the user).
>
>However, doing the same thing through a Web browser runs into problems
>because the customary approach is to launch a telnet client on the user's
>machine, along with a hostname or IP number for the destination. Has
>anybody figured out how to pass a login script to the client, so that
>the user doesn't have to login manually? This problem will go away as
>more info providers offer native WWW or Z39.50 services, but I suspect
>that the need for basic Telnet connections will persist for several
>more years.
>
>In talking with others about this problem, I've encountered two responses:
>
>1) It's technically impossible;
>2) It *must be possible, but I don't know how to do it.
>
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