Simple PHP Telnet Client. Supports any socket/stream protocols that PHP supports including encrypted connections.

• Telnet via tcp and any other protocol supported by PHP
• Encrypted protocols, eg: ssl, tls, sslv3, sslv2
• Scriptable input. Execute your input via shell or PHP interpreter

Example HTTP Request

Example Sending Email via SMTP

Copy telnet.php to your local machine.

git clone https://github.com/fijiwebdesign/php-telnet/
cd php-telnet/

Open your command line client/shell/terminal etc.

php telnet.php host port

Example

php telnet.php google.com 80

Example using ssl to connect to an encrypted IMAP server

php telnet.php imap.gmail.com 993 ssl

The telnet program supports any of the protocols that php sockets supports. This depeds on your PHP install but is normally: tcp, udp, ssl, sslv3, sslv2, tls

Example connecting to local http server and executing input via shell

php telnet.php localhost 80 tcp shell
cat http.txt

This is equivalent to cat http.txt | php telnet.php localhost 80 tcp

You'll need PHP with sockets support

Based initially on the python example from http://www.binarytides.com/code-telnet-client-sockets-python with additions to support encryption and other tcp based protocols.