[bf1942] Remote Console support

[Malte Schröder]

i think the current console-protocol should be replaced by a simple
cleartext telnet-compatible protocol, if you wanted encryption you could
tunnel it through ssh ...

On Fre, 2003-01-03 at 13:53, ScratchMonkey wrote:
> --On Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:12 PM -0500 g8 at the.whole.net wrote:
> 
> > Why not make it command line or something you can interface with some nice
> > PHP (or other preferred scripting language)?  Then it would be totally
> > cross platform.
> 
> His current program is essentially a GUI wrapper over the command-line 
> remote console. But it might be good to take the protocol part and abstract 
> that out as a separate command-line thing and then one could create various 
> GUI apps that communicate locally with it. But the only reason to need that 
> is because the existing remote console is still too unreliable or slow to 
> talk to directly. Is that in fact the case?
> 
> BTW, where's the documentation for the remote console protocol? I just 
> tried telnet'ing to it and get binary gibberish.