NAME¶

edbrowse-plugin-telnet - open a telnet or telnets URL for edbrowse

SYNOPSIS¶

edbrowse-plugin-telnet url

DESCRIPTION¶

edbrowse-plugin-telnet is a helper invoked by edbrowse(1) through the plugin config fragments installed in /usr/share/edbrowse/plugins. It is not normally run by hand.

The script splits url into scheme and host using trurl(1) and then execs telnet(1) against that host, letting /etc/services resolve the port from the scheme name. For a telnets URL it additionally passes -z certrequired,secure,ssl so that TLS is required and the server certificate is verified. Any other scheme is rejected.

EXIT STATUS¶

Non-zero if no URL was given, if the scheme is neither telnet nor telnets, or if telnet itself fails.

SEE ALSO¶

edbrowse(1), telnet(1), trurl(1)

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution.