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From: hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Magic cookies over Telnet
Keywords: Telnet, options, XDISPLOC, X11, magic cookie
Message-ID: <2432@dino.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 90 16:18:23 GMT
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Organization: Project Vincent, Iowa State University Computation Center
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Greetings again from water-logged Iowa:

   (As you may recall from a previous message) I added the option
XDISPLOC to our Telnet (passes your DISPLAY environment variable to the
remote machine) which is all fine and dandy except that you have to do
an "xhost +remote.machine.foo.bar" before you telnet so the other end
can draw on your local display (bummer!).

   What I was thinking of doing was passing the magic-cookie to the
remote-end through another Telnet option.  Has anyone else thought
about/done this (I didn't find a RFC)?  Does any one have any comments
on the good/badness of this?

   On a possibly related note (if this turns out to be `a good thing')
what is the process for writing a RFC?

As always, many thanks,
John Hascall  /  Project Vincent  /  Iowa State University  /  Ames IA
john@iastate.edu  /  hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu