Hi pals,

I am trying to telnet to a machine and perform some operations. The idea is get some inputs from the user in the first screen and configure the machine with those inputs through the second one.

If i telnet to machine in the second screen it is taking 12 seconds time. i was told that i shall use CGI session, so that i can telnet to the machine inthe first screen itself and store the telnet to a session; pass the session to the second screen and retrieve there.

I am struck with storing and retrieving the session.

here is the code first screen:

#!e:/perl/bin/perl
use CGI;
use CGI::Session;
require "telnet.pm";

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print << "END_OF_MESSAGE";

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>AutoGenerate</TITLE>
<base target="_top"> </base>
</HEAD>

some stuff to collect inputs

</HTML>
END_OF_MESSAGE

#create cgi object
$cgi=new CGI;
$session = new CGI::Session( "driver:File", $cgi, {Directory=>"C:/temp
+/"} );

#create telnet object, and save it in session
my $telnet = new Net::Telnet ( Timeout=>1, Errmode=>'return');


$telnet->open(Host=>'hostname', Port=>'port') or die "cannot login";
print "\nLogged: $telnet\n";

$teln = $cgi->param("$telnet");
$session->param($telnet, $teln);

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the second screen:

#!e:/perl/bin/perl
use CGI::Session;
use CGI;
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
$session = new CGI::Session( "driver:File", $cgi, {Directory=>"C:/temp
+/"} );

$telnet = $session->param("$teln");
print "\nretrieved from session: $telnet";

$q = new CGI;

if ($telnet)
{
$telnet->print("configure term\n");
$telnet->waitfor('/configure/i');
$telnet->print("exit\n");
$telnet->waitfor('/[\$%#:>].$/i');
$telnet->print("exit\n");
$telnet->waitfor('/[\$%#:>].$/i');

}
else
{
  print "Else of telnet: $telnet";
}

print <<"EOM";
<HTML>
</HTML>

EOM

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I am facing problems in retrieving the session in teh second screen and not able to configure.
Can anyone help me..
Thanks in advance, mnsbb

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