alt Hacker NewsYou want nc (usually with -v) or socat. telnet is muscle memory for a lot of people (myself included sometimes) but it's a strictly inferior choice these days for poking arbitrary plaintext services.
You want nc (usually with -v) or socat. telnet is muscle memory for a lot of people (myself included sometimes) but it's a strictly inferior choice these days for poking arbitrary plaintext services.
As long as it works, it doesn’t really matter for a quick test.
I find myself using curl telnet://server:port too often these days because telnet and nc don’t get installed.