using interact with TCP socket

[Phil Freed]

Platform: WinXP, cygwin

I have wrote a simple converter in Expect that is designed to take in a
telnet connection and pass it through to an SSH connection.

basically, the code is simple:

socket -server Server -myaddr 127.0.0.1 5555
vwait forever

And the Server routine (simplified to remove error checks and the like) is:

proc Server {channel clientAddr clientPort} {
spawn -open $channel
set telnet $spawn_id

spawn "/usr/bin/ssh" us...@domain.com
interact -u $telnet
}

This works fine, except that anything typed into my telnet session appears
on the screen twice. I've tried everything I can think of -- changing the
spawns to noecho, nottyinit & nottycopy, etc. Is this an artifact of
opening a TCP connection with "spawn -open"? Is there something simple that
I'm missing? Is it simply the platform that I'm on?

Thanks for any light you may be able to shed on this.

[Don Libes]

"Phil Freed" <clt...@freed.com> writes:

If I understand your scenario (very cute by the way!), the extra echo
is being generated by your telnet client itself. You didn't show you
are using a telnet client in the scenario but I assume that's what
you're using, yes? The telnet client has a property of echoing by
default if used to any non-telnetd port.

Off the top of my head, I forget the option to turn off echoing, but
you can find it in any telnet documentation. However, telnet also
uses a very crude line mode (which is why echoing is kinda important).
Depending on your requirements, you might want to deal with that too.

Don

[Michael A. Cleverly]

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Don Libes wrote:

> "Phil Freed" <clt...@freed.com> writes:

>> This works fine, except that anything typed into my telnet session appears
>> on the screen twice. I've tried everything I can think of -- changing the
>> spawns to noecho, nottyinit & nottycopy, etc. Is this an artifact of
>> opening a TCP connection with "spawn -open"? Is there something simple that
>> I'm missing? Is it simply the platform that I'm on?

> Off the top of my head, I forget the option to turn off echoing, but

> you can find it in any telnet documentation. However, telnet also
> uses a very crude line mode (which is why echoing is kinda important).
> Depending on your requirements, you might want to deal with that too.

The OP could try doing a:

puts [format %c%c%c 255 251 1]

to output the escape code to tell (a proper) telnet client to turn off
echo. For reference, you could (request to) turn it back on with:

puts [format %c%c%c 255 252 1]

Michael