full-disclosure - Strange netcat behavior

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From: frick at SC-Networks.de (Christoph Frick)
Subject: Strange netcat behavior

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:56:02PM +0100, thalm wrote:

> Why is there such a difference between netcat and telnet behavior?

nc is a tool to simply redirect stdin/out to sockets. it knows nothing
about protocols. telnet protocol uses always CRLF so the client does
this always (see RFC 854).