invalid string....

[Smie]

im doing a winsock telnet program. But ive noticed when people log on with a certain client, as soon as they log on, it sends (what appears to be) a string of encrypted characters. Is there a way to have my program ignore those characters? thanks for any help!


-Dan

[jim mcnamara]

If you telnet to an SSH site, it sends secure shell information back to the client. What is sent is always the same, and depends only on the server node. I'm surprised an ssh site will let regular telnet connections happen.

This is more of a sysadmin problem, unless these servers are out of your domain.

Trap & store those strings in a file. If they are ssh or some other identifier, they will be constant for each server.
After you think you have gotten all versions of these strings, you can embed a compare routine in your code

Dim badstrings() as String
'read them from a file
Function chkString(str as string) as Boolean
          dim ok as Boolean
          dim i
          ok = true
          for i = 0 to Ubound(badstrings)
               if str = badstrings(i) then
                    ok = false
                    exit for
               end if
         next
         chkString = ok
End Function

so, when you receive, you can:

 if chkStr(thisStr) = False then
         'skip displaying the stuff on the screen
 else
         DoScreenDisplay(thisStr)
 end if