Greetings all,
I have quite a conundrum on my hands, and its got me mightily stumped. I have a non-forking multiuser TCP server that I have running on my port 23, this is based mostly on the Perl Cookbook non-forking server in Chapter 17.

Now - heres the problem:
Depending on how I connect to the server, I can get a 20 character ascii-extended character piece of garbage that somehow appears before I type anything in from the client, thus the very first line that goes to the server is prefixed with it.
Now that, in itself, is pretty wierd -- magic text appearing from nowhere -- but it gets better!

telnet localhost 23
telnet localhost

[download]
Spot the difference! Yes, thats right, in one I explicitly define a port to connect to, and in the other I let telnet assume I mean port 23. Big deal, I hear you cry -- well apparently it is, because my garbage ONLY appears when I let telnet assume port 23.

Anyone got even the faintest idea what on earth is going on? This sounds ludicrous, but it really DOES happen!

JP,
-- Alexander Widdlemouse undid his bellybutton and his bum dropped off --

In reply to 'telnet' sending bizarre ascii to perl server by JPaul

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