Hello, I'm wondering if there is a tool present in Windows which allows to connect to a server on a specific port and see what it spits out as the greeting message. Thank you.

Telnet?

Thank you. I was mislead by the primary usage of the application to communicate through port 23.

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Original post by idinkin Thank you. I was mislead by the primary usage of the application to communicate through port 23.

we have used it to analyse the output of our web and ftp servers ;)

I believe you. But the primary use (or at least the use it was originally designed for) is not debugging networking applications.

I use telnet whenever I want to check network connections and I don't mind working in plain data. It is impossible to use if you need to send/recv binary data though [smile].

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The purpose of the TELNET Protocol is to provide a fairly general, bi-directional, eight-bit byte oriented communications facility. Its primary goal is to allow a standard method of interfacing terminal devices and terminal-oriented processes to each other. It is envisioned that the protocol may also be used for terminal-terminal communication ("linking") and process-process communication (distributed computation).