Looking for a telnet web-app - any suggestions?

[spyordie007]

Access into our main business system is currently done over telnet. I'm sure I dont have to spend much time talking about the problems here regarding security or client software problems. So basically what I'm looking for is a way around these problems. My though was a web-based application that runs telnet connections directly into the server (so telnet would only occur over a trusted network segment).

I've been able to find plenty of web-based telnet clients out there (i.e. http://www.zephyrcorp.com/web-based-telnet.htm) however all of these are just java or active-x clients that run locally (and the telnet connection would still run from a user's machine to the server); I'm looking for a web app that would run the telnet connections from the server so that I could run the entire thing over SSL.

Anyone have suggestions for a web app that I could use to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance,

-Erik

 

[Cheetah8799]

Any chance you could setup SSH on the server and use that instead of telnet?

 

[nweaver]

Perl and net::telnet modules with some creative and careful scripting might yeild what you want. If you could get that to work, you could shut off telnet from all outside, and accept it only on loopback (assuming you can put a webserver on it).

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: Cheetah8799
Any chance you could setup SSH on the server and use that instead of telnet?

I've been discussing this with our business system admin. It may be possible to setup SSH.

Even if we can get SSH going I'd still like to do something that originates the connection from the web server. Another advantage to doing it this way would be they could access it from the outside without VPN.

Perl and net::telnet modules with some creative and careful scripting might yeild what you want. If you could get that to work, you could shut off telnet from all outside, and accept it only on loopback (assuming you can put a webserver on it).

Thanks, I was hoping for a pre-built package; but I'll explore this as an option as well.

-Erik

 

[spyordie007]

Any other suggestions?