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- Network Working Group J. Postel
- Request for Comments: 859 J. Reynolds
- ISI
- Obsoletes: RFC 651 (NIC 31154) May 1983
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- TELNET STATUS OPTION
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- This RFC specifies a standard for the ARPA Internet community. Hosts on
- the ARPA Internet are expected to adopt and implement this standard.
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- 1. Command Name and Code
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- STATUS 5
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- 2. Command Meanings
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- This option applies separately to each direction of data flow.
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- IAC DON'T STATUS
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- Sender refuses to carry on any further discussion of the current
- status of options.
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- IAC WON'T STATUS
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- Sender refuses to carry on any further discussion of the current
- status of options.
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- IAC SB STATUS SEND IAC SE
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- Sender requests receiver to transmit his (the receiver's)
- perception of the current status of Telnet options. The code for
- SEND is 1. (See below.)
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- IAC SB STATUS IS ... IAC SE
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- Sender is stating his perception of the current status of Telnet
- options. The code for IS is 0. (See below.)
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- 3. Default
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- DON'T STATUS, WON'T STATUS
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- The current status of options will not be discussed.
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- 4. Motivation for the Option
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- This option allows a user/process to verify the current status of
- TELNET options (e.g., echoing) as viewed by the person/process on the
- other end of the TELNET connection. Simply renegotiating options
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- RFC 859 May 1983
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- could lead to the nonterminating request loop problem discussed in
- the General Consideration section of the TELNET Specification. This
- option fits into the normal structure of TELNET options by deferring
- the actual transfer of status information to the SB command.
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- 5. Description of the Option
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- WILL and DO are used only to obtain and grant permission for future
- discussion. The actual exchange of status information occurs within
- option subcommands (IAC SB STATUS...).
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- Once the two hosts have exchanged a WILL and a DO, the sender of the
- WILL STATUS is free to transmit status information, spontaneously or
- in response to a request from the sender of the DO. At worst, this
- may lead to transmitting the information twice. Only the sender of
- the DO may send requests (IAC SB STATUS SEND IAC SE) and only the
- sender of the WILL may transmit actual status information (within an
- IAC SB STATUS IS ... IAC SE command).
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- IS has the subcommands WILL, DO and SB. They are used EXACTLY as used
- during the actual negotiation of TELNET options, except that SB is
- terminated with SE, rather than IAC SE. Transmission of SE, as a
- regular data byte, is accomplished by doubling the byte (SE SE).
- Options that are not explicitly described are assumed to be in their
- default states. A single IAC SB STATUS IS ... IAC SE describes the
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- RFC 859 May 1983
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- The following is an example of use of the option:
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- Host1: IAC DO STATUS
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- Host2: IAC WILL STATUS
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- (Host2 is now free to send status information at any time.
- Solicitations from Host1 are NOT necessary. This should not
- produce any dangerous race conditions. At worst, two IS's will
- be sent.)
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- Host1 (perhaps): IAC SB STATUS SEND IAC SE
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- Host2 (the following stream is broken into multiple lines only for
- readability. No carriage returns are implied.):
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- IAC SB STATUS IS
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- WILL ECHO
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- DO SUPPRESS-GO-AHEAD
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- WILL STATUS
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- DO STATUS
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- IAC SE
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- Explanation of Host2's perceptions: It is responsible for echoing
- back the data characters it receives over the TELNET connection;
- it will not send Go-Ahead signals; it will both issue and request
- Status information.
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