Re^2: Using IO::Socket to login to a server

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Re^3: Using IO::Socket to login to a server by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 04, 2008 at 03:33 UTC
TCP isn't precise enough. Imagine two people communicating. They can communicate in English, in French, etc. They can communicate verbally, in writing, etc They can communicate over a phone, using snail mail, using a video, etc. By picking TCP, you picked something from the second line, but you still have haven't picked a language. Is it a Telnet server? an SSH server? HTTP? FTP? ...	[reply]
Re^4: Using IO::Socket to login to a server by deadpickle (Pilgrim) on Feb 06, 2008 at 06:09 UTC
THe server is SSH. That means that the client have to log in to a SSH server then connect to the chat server using IO::Socket::INET This doesnt seem very reasonable, if not impossible.	[reply]