/* tcpget - get single response from a TCP port. Copyright (C) 2013-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Inetutils. GNU Inetutils is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Inetutils is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see `http://www.gnu.org/licenses/'. */ /* Written by Mats Erik Andersson. */ /* Tcpget receives and displays whatever text a server cares to send * without any interaction from a client and within a set time period. * An alarm timer is set to five seconds by default, but the limit * can be set to another value with a command line switch, starting * at one second, but limited upwards to one hour! * * Invocation: * * tcpget [-t secs] host tcp-port */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #ifdef HAVE_LOCALE_H # include #endif int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { int fd, opt, rc; int timeout = 5; /* Defaulting to five seconds of waiting time. */ char buffer[256]; struct addrinfo hints, *ai, *res; set_program_name (argv[0]); #ifdef HAVE_SETLOCALE setlocale (LC_ALL, ""); #endif while ((opt = getopt (argc, argv, "t:")) != -1) { int t; switch (opt) { case 't': t = atoi (optarg); if (t > 0 && t <= 3600 /* on hour */ ) timeout = t; break; default: fprintf (stderr, "Usage: %s [-t secs] host port\n", argv[0]); exit (EXIT_FAILURE); } } if (argc < optind + 2) return (EXIT_FAILURE); memset (&hints, 0, sizeof (hints)); hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC; hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM; rc = getaddrinfo (argv[optind], argv[optind + 1], &hints, &res); if (rc) { fprintf (stderr, "%s: %s\n", argv[0], gai_strerror (rc)); return (EXIT_FAILURE); } for (ai = res; ai; ai = ai->ai_next) { fd = socket (ai->ai_family, ai->ai_socktype, ai->ai_protocol); if (fd < 0) continue; if (connect (fd, ai->ai_addr, ai->ai_addrlen) >= 0) break; close (fd); } freeaddrinfo (res); if (ai && (fd >= 0)) { ssize_t n; alarm (timeout); while ((n = recv (fd, buffer, sizeof (buffer), 0))) write (STDOUT_FILENO, buffer, n); close (fd); } close (STDIN_FILENO); close (STDOUT_FILENO); close (STDERR_FILENO); return EXIT_SUCCESS; }