Telnetlib

[Andrew MacIntyre]

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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 vxgvxg at my-deja.com wrote:

> When using any of the telnetlib read functions (such as read_all(),
> read_until(), etc.), the 0x00's seem to be dropped from the data
> stream.  Any ideas?

I know nothing of telnetlib, but seem to recall that by default the telnet
protocol negotiates 7-bit ascii with remapping/filtering of control codes 
(the NUL character is quite likely to be affected).

It is possible to negotiate 8-bit ascii, and minimise the 
remapping/filtering with many telnet daemons.  Whether telnetlib supports
this will require perusal of the docs.

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