Using netcat for a small server

Hi!

I wrote a simple server using netcat and a shell script (respectively a
batch file for MS-Dos).

At the moment I'm able to let netcat listen at a port, wait for incoming
traffic, respond to the client with a predefined answer (f.e. "ok") and
process the query thereafter:

netcat -l -p 50000 <answer.txt >query.txt
[...]

But what I want to do now is to receive a query from a client, process it
and answer with a *custom* response depending on the query to the same
connection. Is this possible at all with netcat? Any suggestions?

Tom

Thomas Henkel wrote:

> But what I want to do now is to receive a query from a client, process it
> and answer with a *custom* response depending on the query to the same
> connection. Is this possible at all with netcat? Any suggestions?

I don't think so. I think you need to learn how to write Perl or Python
scripts or something...

Not every problem looks like a nail...

X.