telnet

README

telnet

Telnet is a simple library to connect to a telnet server. You may use it to either read lines from or write lines to a telnet connection.

Installation

go get -u github.com/julisch94/telnet

Usage

func main() {
    connection, err := telnet.Connect("localhost", "7072", "secret")
    if err != nil {
        panic("Failed to connect.")
    }
    defer connection.Close()

    telnet.WriteLine(connection, "version")
    line, _ := telnet.ReadLine(connection)
    fmt.Println("line was read:", line)
}

Documentation

Index

• func CleanTelnetStream(connection *telnet.Conn)
• func Connect(host, port, password string) (connection *telnet.Conn, err error)
• func ReadLine(connection *telnet.Conn) (line string, err error)
• func WriteLine(connection *telnet.Conn, line string) (err error)

Functions

func CleanTelnetStream

func CleanTelnetStream(connection *telnet.Conn)

CleanTelnetStream reads everything off the stream until timeouts are received

func Connect

func Connect(host, port, password string) (connection *telnet.Conn, err error)

Connect tries to establish a connection to the given host:port. An additional password will be entered to log in.

func ReadLine

func ReadLine(connection *telnet.Conn) (line string, err error)

ReadLine reads a new line from the connection or returns an error

func WriteLine

func WriteLine(connection *telnet.Conn, line string) (err error)

WriteLine writes the given line to the given connection