Hello, Wondering if anyone can help me. I'm using the net::telnet to telnet to port 80 on a web server. I'm looking to do a "GET /" once i've connected. The problem is i'm having trouble getting my code to reckognize when the web server is ready for input. The web server responds with something like: 
telnet www.yahoo.com 80
Trying 64.58.76.229...
Connected to www.yahoo.akadns.net.
Escape character is '^]'.

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with the cursor below the last line. My theory is that i'm having problems because I need to match this last line that has nothing in it, of course I could be way off :( Everything I try doesn't seem to work. Here's a small test program which illustrates my problem. I thank you all in advance for any help or pushes in the right dierction. 
use Net::Telnet;

$telnet = new Net::Telnet ( Timeout=>10,
                            Errmode=>'die',
                            Port => 80,
                            Prompt => '/\'.$/');

$telnet->open('www.whatever.com');
$output=$telnet->cmd('GET / ');
print $output;

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Thanks

In reply to problem using Net::Telnet to GET a page by sidhartha

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