Re: Telnet to remote system and format output via web page

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I would use something like fabric to automatically login to hosts via
ssh then parse the data myself to generate static HTML pages in a
document root.

Having a web app execute remote commands on a server is so wrong in many ways.

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On Sep 11, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Jugurtha Hadjar <jugurtha.hadjar@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/11/2013 11:45 AM, Kenroy Bennett wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> I would like to create a web  app using flask or cgi library  along with telnetlib to telnet to specific servers and execute commands and retrieve the output.
>> The output will then be  formatted and outputted to a webpage .
>
>
> Is security an issue ? How sensitive is the information you are querying ? Must it be Telnet ?
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Telnet to remote system and format output  via web page Kenroy Bennett <bennettk9999@gmail.com> - 2013-09-11 03:45 -0700
  Re: Telnet to remote system and format output  via web page Jugurtha Hadjar <jugurtha.hadjar@gmail.com> - 2013-09-11 13:45 +0100
  Re: Telnet to remote system and format output via web page Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com> - 2013-09-11 10:13 -0400

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