telnet with port numbers (colon)

[Ajay Simha]

Hi,

I found one article posted asking the same question but found no posting
with a solution.

Netscape/IE handle telnet://hostname:port number fine but opera does not it
does handle telnet://hostname but port number is crucial when you are using
terminal servers.

Thanks,

-ajay

[Mark Allread]

I think you're seeing a problem with the telnet app provided by microsloth with windows. It won't accept a proper "addr:port"
address, but wants instead "addr port" (space in between). Opera just passes the provided addr:port on to the application.

Opera works just fine with Procomm Plus (preferences, select the app, then add "telnet connect manual". This causes Opera
to issue the command "<path/appname> telnet connect manual addr:port" which works fine with procomm. Opera would
presumably work fine with any telnet application which accepts the standard "addr:port" syntax.

So complain to MS, where the fault actually lies.

[to...@jupiter.solar-system.dynodns.net]

I'd like to disagree. The standard for telnet ist "host port". Every telnet
program I know of (atleast under Solaris, Linux, AmigaOS) uses this scheme,
and they are a lot longer around than the URLs, which use the ':'-scheme.

> So complain to MS, where the fault actually lies.

*This time*, MS is not to blame...

Ciao
Marc