EDBROWSE-PLUGIN-TELNET(1)

📦 version 3.8.18, in ubuntu stonking

💖 EDBROWSE-PLUGIN-TELNET(1) 💖

okay so bestie, this little cutie lives in the General Commands Manual section and her whole job is opening a telnet or telnets URL for edbrowse. that's it. that's the gig. she's a tiny backstage queen 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

edbrowse-plugin-telnet — open a telnet or telnets URL for edbrowse 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

edbrowse-plugin-telnet url

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so edbrowse-plugin-telnet is a helper, right? she gets invoked by edbrowse(1) through the plugin config fragments that are installed in /usr/share/edbrowse/plugins. she is not normally run by hand — she's not out here for random walk-ins, she's on call for edbrowse only, iykyk 🙈

here's the tea on what she actually does:

  • she splits url into scheme and host using trurl(1) 🧚
  • then she execs telnet(1) against that host
  • and she lets /etc/services resolve the port from the scheme name — she's not out here guessing ports, she lets the system handle it, periodt 😌

and for a telnets URL she additionally passes this iconic little combo:

-z certrequired,secure,ssl

which means TLS is required and the server certificate is verified — no sketchy unverified crypto in this household 💀🔒

any other scheme? rejected. goodbye. not her problem. 🚫

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

she bails with a non-zero exit when:

  • no URL was given 😭
  • the scheme is neither telnet nor telnets
  • or telnet itself fails 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution. 💜

and that's the whole page bestie — go forth and telnet responsibly 🌈✨

sign-off szn: this was edbrowse version 3.8.18, dated 2026-08-17, from the EDBROWSE-PLUGIN-TELNET(1) manual. mwah, slay, bye 🎀💖

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