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Telnet-like client

22 September, 2007 (10:17) | Uncategorized | By: Bryce Boe

Using the methods I discussed previously I wrote a telnet-like client which can be used to communicate with any type of text based server such as mail and web servers. The following isn’t 100% perfect as it doesn’t handle early returns from send as I wasn’t able to properly test this behavior.

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#include <stdio.h>	// perror,printf
#include <stdlib.h>	// exit
#include <string.h>	// strerror
#include <netdb.h>	// gethostbyname
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <fcntl.h>	// FD_ functions
#include <signal.h>	// sig functions
#include <unistd.h>	// STDIN_FILENO
 
int client_socket;
 
void exit_error(char* msg) {
  perror(msg);
  exit(1);
}
 
void exit_close(char* msg) {
  close(client_socket);
  exit_error(msg);
}
 
void KBInterrupt(int sig) {
  close(client_socket);
  exit(0);
}
 
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
  /* Variables */
  struct hostent *server_host;
  struct sockaddr_in server_addr;
  fd_set fd;
  int charsRead, charsWritten;
  int char_buff_size = 1024;
  char char_buffer[char_buff_size];
  struct sigaction handler;
 
  /* Verify arguments */
  if (argc < 3) {
    fprintf(stderr,"usage %s hostname port\n",argv[0]);
    exit(0);
  }
 
  /* Setup Action Handler */
  handler.sa_handler = KBInterrupt;
  if (sigfillset(&handler.sa_mask) < 0)
    exit_error("sigfillset failed");
  handler.sa_flags = 0;
  if (sigaction(SIGINT,&handler,0) < 0)
    exit_error("sigaction failed");
 
  /* Create TCP socket */
  if((client_socket = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,IPPROTO_TCP)) < 0)
    exit_error("Could not create socket");
 
  /* Get host information. This takes a fqdn or IP address */
  if ((server_host = gethostbyname(argv[1])) == NULL) {
    herror(argv[1]);
    exit(1);
  }
 
  /* Setup and fill in values for server_addr */
  bzero((char*)&server_addr,sizeof(server_addr));
  server_addr.sin_family = server_host->h_addrtype;
  bcopy((char*)server_host->h_addr,
	(char*)&server_addr.sin_addr.s_addr,
	server_host->h_length);
  server_addr.sin_port = htons(atoi(argv[2]));
 
  /* Connect */
  if (connect(client_socket,(struct sockaddr*)&server_addr,sizeof(server_addr)) < 0)
    exit_error("ERROR connecting");
 
  /* The Main part of the program */
  for(;;) {
    /* Setup file descriptors */
    FD_ZERO(&fd);
    FD_SET(STDIN_FILENO,&fd);
    FD_SET(client_socket,&fd);
 
    /* Wait for input via keyboard or socket */
    select(client_socket+1,&fd,NULL,NULL,NULL);
    if(FD_ISSET(STDIN_FILENO,&fd)) { /* Keyboard input */
      if ((charsRead = read(STDIN_FILENO,char_buffer,char_buff_size)) < 0)
	exit_close("ERROR reading from STDIN");
      if ((charsWritten = send(client_socket,char_buffer,charsRead,0)) != charsRead)
	  exit_close("Did not write enough\n");
    }
    if(FD_ISSET(client_socket,&fd)) { /* Socket input */
      if ((charsRead = recv(client_socket,char_buffer,char_buff_size,0)) < 0)
	exit_close("ERROR reading from socket");
      else if (charsRead == 0)
	exit_close("Connection closed");
 
      /* Output to screen */
      charsWritten = 0;
      int temp = 0;
      while ((temp = write(STDOUT_FILENO,&char_buffer[charsWritten],charsRead-charsWritten)) > 0)
	charsWritten += temp;
      if (temp < 0)
	  exit_close("ERROR writing to screen");
    }
  }
 
  /* Unreachable */
  return 0;
}

Pretty simple.

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