How to run and read the results of command prompt/telnet from a processing sketch?

[Birb]

I posted my attempt with sockets here, although I wasn’t able to get a connection to the server (in this case Google’s MX server on port 25).

TCP mail client session in Processing not working

I’m trying to open a TCP socket with a mail server and then send/read commands, but it isn’t working. After running for several minutes with no response I get the IOException catch error “Couldn’t get I/O for the connection to: hostname”. import java.io.*; import java.net.*; void setup() { size(200,200); Socket smtpSocket = null; DataOutputStream os = null; // DataInputStream is = null; BufferedReader br = null; try { smtpSocket = new Socket("64.233.177.26", 25); os = new…

I may have to look into executing telnet commands with a bat script, but I wish I could do it from within a processing sketch if possible.