[hobbit] using nc as client

Re: Wendell Turner 2009-05-22 <20090522215559.GA27007 at q.rho.net>

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It appears that I can use netcat to send plain text, as in:

Nevermind. It turns out that the ISP had an old version of nc that didn't work very well. I switched the script over to python and it works fine.

A note on that one, the bb protocol needs shutdown() called for the sending file descriptor to fully work correctly. Different nc versions handle that differently, some work, some don't.

Christoph

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