Syntax

$telnet HOST PORT

Example

$telnet 127.0.0.1 11211
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
// now store some data and get it from memcached server
set tutorialspoint 0 900 9
memcached
STORED
get tutorialspoint
VALUE tutorialspoint 0 9
memcached
END

Connection from Java Application

Example

import net.spy.memcached.MemcachedClient;
import java.net.*;


public class MemcachedJava {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      try{
         // Connecting to Memcached server on localhost
         MemcachedClient mcc = new MemcachedClient(new InetSocketAddress("127.0.0.1", 11211));
         System.out.println("Connection to server sucessful.");
         
         // Shutdowns the memcached client
         mcc.shutdown();
         
      }catch(Exception ex){
         System.out.println( ex.getMessage() );
      }
   }
}

Output

Connection to server successful.