Unable to Telnet to Channel Port

Question

Setting up our first interface.  Have created a simple HL7 (ADT) channel to receive the ADT message and drop to a folder.  Unable to connect from the sending server.  Telnet to the socket port fails.  Have disabled Windows firewall.  I can telnet to other ports on the server but not the one for this channel.

Answer 1

Good question.

By default, a socket based receiver in QIE expects a block header and block footer.  This allows HL7 messages to be sent with minimal overhead and still know where to start and stop a single message.

To connect to a listening channel with Telnet, I had to turn on my Telnet Client and Telnet Server:

Without the Telnet Server checked, I get the following error:

Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on port 4556: Connect failed

I can connect to a channel via telnet, but it is not very helpful in sending a message unless I send a block header and footer.