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I know that it is possible to communicate with Thingspeak, but is it possible to send a data string to another website which (in my project is www.on-off.com.au port 4600) is waiting for a 38 byte data string?

Upon receipt of this string, the server will send a short message back to the same IP address.

Is this possible at the moment? Should I use the wget command?

Great concept, btw, Mmiscool

telnet type communication is possible. Search the docs for keyword telnet.

I assume that's "Telnet" in the loose and floppy *nix sense? I.e. just ASCII over TCP connections?

Or is it proper Telnet that handles the full protocol? RFC 854 and later?

Not whining. Just asking, for future reference.

Thanks for that suggestion, MMiscool. That looks like just the capability I need.