Telnet

[Billy Ng]

Hi folks,

I am trying to write a telnet client program.  Here is the code:

ID = "123445"
PASSWORD = "333"

try:
   tn = telnetlib.Telnet(<host>)
   tn.read_until("Please enter your id? ")
   tn.write(ID+"\n")
   tn.read_until("Enter your password? ")
   tn.write(PASSWORD+"\n")
   print tn.read_all()
   tn.close()
except:
   tn.close()
   print 'connection failed'
tn.close()

It stops after the ID was written.  If I use the actual telnet client, it
returns "Enter your password? " after my ID is submitted.  why does not
tn.read_until() find  the "Enter your password? " string ?  Is there any
other way to handle the password prompt?

Thanks in advance!

Billy Ng