A little bit of Telnet Server-style help please.

Yep, I'm going back on my word and asking for some help, hope I get some.

What I'd like to know is: Has anyone successfully programmed a control or application that handles RFC compliant telnet properly.

I'm writing a server (for a text based game) and I'm getting fed up with my telnet code. Basically, I get something working with one or two telnet clients and another one breaks the code, I fix it for that and break it for another, in an endless spaghetti code cycle.

I'm looking for some help and will produce the 'filtering' code again if you need to look at it. Basically I need ~100% rfc compliant telnet (without having to spend 3 weeks of pay to get it), and full ANSI compliance (to work with vt100/vt220 clients) color is no problem, I have some of the cursor codes worked out.

Ideally, this control could replace the winsock control for internet communication, parse out cursor codes/color codes, provide 100% stable server side echo, and take care of terminal negotiations.

The port needs to be dynamically assignable, the control also needs to be usable in a control array.

Pretty much, a telnet only version of winsock.

If anyone can help, you'll get full credits in the program I'm writing.

I apologize for the length of this post, and for requesting such help, if you don't wish to help, please leave a note in the thread saying so. Any and all help in getting this telnet control or telnet code working better than I have would be grand and greatly appreciated. I run the server usually from 6pm to midnight EST. post to let me know if you'd like to witness it first hand and I'll send you the test address and port number.

Again, thanks in advance and I hope someone can help me out.

Taking someone's advice, I'm posting this here, hopefully to get an answer or some help, or a little bit of both.