Pick a protocol that the remote site supports and use that instead of trying to use the telnet object.

How would you do it by hand?

If I need to explain over a manual session. say as follows open a putty session to server A. do a telnet to server B. perform and ftp to server C and copy files to server B. I need the above because, we are running through an automation client that actually runs on A, this uses net::telnet and achieves a session with B. Further I need to copy the files from Server C on B.

So, you want to run an script in A that opens a Net::Telnet connection to B and from there drives a SFTP client that connects to C and gets some files from there, right?

The task seems doable through Net::Telnet, what have you tried so far? What issues have you found?

nrm:

While I agree with JavaFan, if you really must use telnet, then I'd suggest converting the file into a text format (if it isn't already). Then you can tell the remote box to dump the contents of the file to the terminal, and use your telnet object to capture the data. Then you can convert the file back into its original form. Horrendous, but it would work if you put some time and effort into it.

But it would be much simpler to use ftp, scp, or some such to do the job.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

$t = new Net::Telnet();
$t->open("sparky");
$t->login( $username, $passwd );
$t->cmd( 'scp userb@serverb:/path/file userc@serverc:/dest/path' );
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