If I understand your situation correctly, this is almost exactly what Cisco provides in part of their web interface to their low-end routers.

It will take me a while, but when I get a chance will check the HTML to see if is legal for me to publicly reproduce.   If so, I'll post here.   I *think* it might do what you want. (or I may just be fullabeans {grin})
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Update: After a bit of pondering, I don't think the Cisco code/markup would help you, since it executes on each local device and requires a webserver running locally as well.   You appear to want a CGI interface to telnet to *other* hosts, which is a little different matter.   Unless you employ rhosts or the like, you'll have to pass user ID and Password to do this.

As jlongino suggests, you may want to look into the CPAN modules CGI.pm and Net::Telnet.

In reply to Re: (3) IP address matching and telnet connections (Cisco web-interface does this (Updated)) by ybiC
in thread IP address matching and telnet connections by Anonymous Monk

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