Hi

I am making my way through a windows service that accepts
custom telnet commands as strings and then parses the string
and redirects it.

This would be a custom string sent via telnet.

So, I need to prompt the user for input and then capture
that imput, parse it into a form that is readable (strings in
variables) and then send it somewhere (to a database or
xml).

What I have right now hijacks the telnet connection by
spawning a tread and queuing connections, but I am
still unclear how to send custom prompts to the user
and capture responses.

Also, I need a login (username/password) before we can
start.

Below is my code. Could somebody walk me through
how to add the interactivity?

Much appreciated!

       protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
       {
           this.timer1.Enabled = true;
           new Thread(new ThreadStart(Listen)).Start();
       }

       /// <summary>
       /// Stop this service.
       /// </summary>
       protected override void OnStop()
       {
           this.timer1.Enabled = false;
           this.Listen(); // stop / start
       }

       private void timer1_Elapsed(object sender,
System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
       {
           this.Listen();
       }

       public void Listen()
       {

           eventLog2.WriteEntry("Listener Service Started...",
EventLogEntryType.Information);

        try
        {
           Queue unsyncq = new Queue();
           connectionQueue = Queue.Synchronized(unsyncq);
        }
        catch( Exception e)
        {
           eventLog2.WriteEntry( "Error in Listener method ( queue
related ) : " + e.Message, EventLogEntryType.Error);
           return;
        }

           try
           {

               TcpClient socket;
               TcpListener listener = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Any,
23);

               listener.Start();

               while( true)
               {
                   socket = listener.AcceptTcpClient();
                   connectionQueue.Enqueue(socket);

                   Thread workingthread = new Thread(new
ThreadStart(TheConnectionHandler));
                   workingthread.Start(socket);

               }

           }
           catch( Exception e)
           {
                   eventLog2.WriteEntry( "Error in Listener method
( connection related ) :" + e.Message, EventLogEntryType.Error);
                   return;
           }

       }

       public void TheConnectionHandler()
       {

               TcpClient socket =
(TcpClient)connectionQueue.Dequeue();

               byte[] message = new byte[4096];
               int bytesRead;

               while (true)
               {

                   bytesRead = 0;

                   try
                   {

                       //blocks until a client sends a message
                       bytesRead =  clientStream.Read(message, 0,
4096);

                   }
                   catch
                   {
                       //a socket error has occured
                       break;
                   }

                   if (bytesRead == 0)
                   {

                       //the client has disconnected from the server
                       break;

                   }

                       //message has successfully been received
                       ASCIIEncoding encoder = new ASCIIEncoding();
                       System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(
                       encoder.GetString(message, 0, bytesRead));

               }

               socket.Close();

       }