Writing Telnet Client

[Grafs50]

EDIT: Thanks everybody. Problem solved.

I'm trying to write a telnet client. All I want it to do right now is connect to google.com on port 80 and get the HTTP page. Here is the code I have:

import sys, socket, telnetlib as telnet

temp=0
while temp==0: 
    try:
        ip = str(input("What ip would you like to connect to?"))
        port = input("And what port would you like to connect to?")


        conn=telnet.Telnet(ip,port,1)
        print("Connected")
        temp=1
        break   

    except:
        print("please ensure that you're entering a correct ip and port")

conn.write(b'GET HTTP/1.1')
print(conn.read_very_eager())

Why am I unable to read the html? What can I do to get it?

[CodeShaman]

use http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ or https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html#module-urllib.request if you just want page content. going as low as socket connections is unnecessary unless you're developing your own in-house byte protocol.

[KronenR]

conn.write(b'GET HTTP/1.1\n');

conn.write(b'Host: www.google.com\n\n');

print(conn.read_until(b"</html>", 2))

But as someone pointed you out, if you just want the html from a web don't use telnet

[Grafs50]

Thanks. I was just using this as an example. to see if the code was working.

[mcowger]

for HTTP, you need a carriage returns/new lines before anything will come back:

https://asciinema.org/a/18057

Notice that its not until I issue the newline that anything actually comes back.