Telnet question

[Rashkae]

On 2020-05-29 12:51 a.m., Phil wrote:
> I have a daemon that listens on a particular port. I can send commands
> to that port using Telnet and receive a response from the daemon. I also
> have an application that sends commands to the same daemon and I'm
> wondering how I might listen to those commands. I tried Telnet expecting
> to see those commands but nothing is displayed. How can I intercept
> those commands?
> 
> It's not a matter of life or death; I'm just curious.
> 


By default, telnet only displays what is sent to it, not what you send
out.  You can turn on "local echo" to display the characters you type.

As for intercepting the commands sent by your program, you can use
something like wireshark to snoop on the network packets.